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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1937..
Robert Lynd On Scottish Bagpipes
We'll Up and Gie
Them A BLAW
CANNOT have been the How is it possible that men only person who was otherwise rational can hear in bagpipe music only sounds like profoundly shocked by the minowing of cats at mid- the news that the Musicians' night, the squealing of pigs, and Union of Canada had re- the lowing of extremely unhappy fused to admit bagpipers to cows? Yet they undoubtedly I have heard an Englishman membership on the ground do. that a bagpiper is not a saying that he would rather
musician.
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listen for an hour to a pneumatic drill at work than listen for five
Shocked though I was, how minutes to the bagpipes.
Such men seriously believe ever, I realised sorrowfully that that the bagpipe is not a musi- many of my English friends cal instrument but an instru- would agree with the Musicians' ment of torture. Why, it is only Union of Canada. Just as Eng- a few months since a piper was lishmen can hardly believe that brought into court by his neigh haggis is serious food or the kilt bours in Cheshire on the ground a serious costume, so they find that his bagpipe-playing con- it difficult to believe that the stituted "an excessive, unreason- bagpipe is a serious musical in- able and unnecessary noise, cap- To-day Hongkong is to ex-strument. perience what children may find
'able of being mitigated, and in- Almost everything that comes jurious to health." thrilling and what adults will from Scotland, from the dialect quite properly ignore. It is a down, seems to seem funny to
PREPAREDNESS (Film "Broadway Melody of 1938)
BD 5263 My Cabin of Dreams-F.T. (V.R. by Denny Dennis)
So rare-F.T. (Vocal Refrain by Barry Gray!
(Both by Roy Fox & His Orchestra). BD-5264 Stardust on the Moon--F.T.
Jack Harris & His Orchestra over again--Waltz
BD-5268
You need'nt have kept it a secret-Waltz
will hurriedly
Let us be sweethearts
them, except whisky. And even Well, some country people say BD-5265 Caravan--fox Trot Jack Harris & His Orchestra general public is expected to do pronounced "whuskey.""
Jack Harris & His Orchestra test of the alarm system. The whisky seems funny when it is the same thing about the sing- struments-it is mentioned in pipes were a famous Scottish in- Toy Trumpet-Novelty Fox Trot
ing of nightingales, and if it the Bible. At least, the word strument of music that had won Jack Harris & His Orchestra nothing. The Colony has not
Now I confess that I myself were possible to hale nightin- "dulcimer" in the 3rd chapter of the war by the terror which it Love was born-Fox Trot
yet reached that state of pre- can eat haggis only with my gales before the magistrate we Daniel is said to be a mistransla- inspired in the hearts of the Billy Mayerl & His Orchestra paredness when
crowds will eyes shut and that, though a should no doubt hear of nightin- tion of a word that really means Germans."
"bagpipe." Stranger in a cup of tea-F.T.
small drop of Highland blood gales being bound over to keep Billy Mayer & His Orchestra rush to shelter at a given signal, flows in my veins, I have never the pence,
The Greeks and the Romans
In three kinds of music the (Both from "Crazy Days").
As for the Cheshire piper, he seem also to have played the and decontamination squads yet felt a craving to appear in a
unsurpassed--the was actually forbidden to play bagpipe, and it is commonly be bagpipe is BD-5266 If you only knew-Waltz (from "Crest of the Waves" will prepare to speed to bombed kilt in Fleet Street.
A little co-operation from you-F.T., ("Going Greek")
This does not mean, however, the pipes for more than 20 lieved that the bagpipe first march, the lament, and the BD-5267 Moon at Sea-Fox Trot
points, and firemen and police that I think haggis funny, on the minutes a day; and on three reached Britain at the time of dance. There is enough galety muster for contrary, I regard it with awe. days in the week he was not the Roman conquest. Yet so in bagpipe dance music to set a emergency stations. In this It does not mean that I think the allowed to play them at all. far has the musical taste of the convocation of the world's pessi-
Bad as this is, however, it is Romans declined since then that miste jigging. (Film "The Singing Marine" "tight little island," with a well-kilt ridiculous. The truth is, I
I remember being present at look on it with envy as the per- at least an improvement on the a few years ago a young Scots- guarded hinterland, people have fact costume for men with shape- old days when the British Gov- man who was practising the a competition of country pipers felt themselves safe from in-lier calves than my own.
ernment (in 1745) made the pipes in the Colosseum by night one of whom-a blind old pauper I never know-F.T. Ted Foster and His Kings of Swing vasion. For years the friend-
As for the prejudice against possession of bagpipes an offence was with difficulty saved from played an exceptionally merry the bagpipe Teddy Foster and His Kings of Swing liest and most cordial relations cannot understand how it ever
(or bagpipes), I punishable by death.
have existed with all nenr came to exist. neighbours moreover. So there
The common English attitude has been no need for elaborate Farm Company's whistle at unjust because, if the "Ency to the bagpipes is all the more preparations to .meet such Pokfulum, will simultaneously clopaedia" is to be believed, it coming from the ruins instead of
way from England that the bag- emergencies as air raids and inform the Colony that Govern-pipes were first introduced into delighting those who heard it musle, which-in Ireland at least
(Both by Ronnie Munro & His Orchestra)
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BD-5253
I hum a Waltz-Waltz (Film-This is my affair")
(Orlando & His Orchestra).
Don't you care what anyone says?-F.T.
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being arrested by the police for tune. "carrying unauthorised wea pong."
The sound of the bagpipes
tive upstart among musical in his had explained that "the bag- pipes well played.
One of the judges asked. him what the tune was called. "The name of that tune," said the blind piper, "is "To Hell with Poverty.It is a title that is magnificently expressive of the spirit of a great deal of pipe-
naval bombardments. The genment is studying measures for Scotland. "From England," we "Screams, groans, walls
created ទ reign of terror. survived chiefly in the cottages
of poor men. and eral public, therefore, has not its protection. been much interested in that realise
I trust, then, that the Musi- The public will fare told, "the bagpipe spread to sobs"-40 reporter described
Caledonia and
Ireland." It the music at the time "issuing consider its view that the bag- cians' Union of Canada will re- phase of military experiment evolving measures to be applied hang men for possessing and ap scoms a little unreasonable to
from the Colosseum on Saturday pipe is not a musical instrument. which is concerned with the in the remote event of attack Preciating in instrument that night attracted the attention of Canada after all, owes a great
the police." safety of civilians; it has been by some powerful enemy whose you have taught them to play.
deal to Scotland, but I doubt Scotland ever in- asked to learn no lesson; and aircraft may be able to piercely a civilised race that has not murder was
Apparently, they believed that whether Apart from this there is hard-
being committed troduced into Canada anything for the most part it remains in the defences of these hills, or been brought up on the bagpipes, and they permitted the musician mere memorable more deafen- wholesomo ignorance of the whose ships may be able to Unlike the piano-that compara- to go free only when a friend of ingly memorable-than the bag- meaning of such things as in reach the dwellings of the cendiary bombs, mustard gas Colony with long-range guns. and whatever new frightfulness The people will understand that modern learning has been able these precautions are being to contribute to the science of taken, as they should be, before murder. But war has come there is any reason to suppose close enough to this Colony to that danger exists. Hongkong, make many people conscious of somewhat belatedly, is the necessity of such knowledge. mencing just what other mo- Though attack by any power isdern cities of its size have an unthinkable development, carried to completion during the] though Hongkong is aware that past five years. But it is a Britain and her friends still can work which deserves the un-i muster the most potent striking failing support of responsible force in the world, and that people, and the gratitude of the
DUT one of my friends, comparulively curly times, and the luxury of being sentimental about tolerant and ingenious than the therefore interference with Bri-masses for whom it is conceived.
Later the people may be asked font before the Engish began to Scotland, the land they had zo thank-
rest, has suggested that perhaps an tish possessions would be the to contribute in other ways to think of conquering anyone, the Scots fully escaped from:
They set aside two nights in the exchange might be made, "You and WENZANnet of a mad man, these facts the safety of the Colony. They were making determined efforts to
year-the Thirtieth of November your Nationalist associates," he said, norther may be told where, to go and conquer England. do not alter the truth of the what to do in the event of airtions for this, but in rcailty there sang Scottish-songs and were thank-
Historians offer several explana- and the birth of Robert Burns-they would be satisfied by a
English; which were migration of the statement that Hongkong's raids or bombardments by big was only one reason for it: England ful that only Engilah walters
Loch reinvigorate the moribund industries civilian population is as vulner-guns. They will be required to is farther south than Scotland, and there to hear them. They were lux would repopulate the Highlands and
the Scots had a very sensible desire uriously reminiscent about able to bullets and to gas as any remember these things, possibly for early strawberries, and a climate Lomond and Bennachie, and wonder- of Scotland.
"The English are a hardy and ad. to practise them, so that their in which they could sit around and ed whether they should spend their other.
accustomed 10 people, It is common Bense, movements in an emergency watch other people playing cricket. next summer holidays at Bourne-venturous then, in these unpredictable would be automatic-like look- However, the Seats had no great mouth or on the Bronds.
abandoned, their
Most of them then went home and colonial enterprise in cauape parts of the earth, and might well be per- claymores, dirks, and Jeddart axes, wrote to the more alert and times, that no sensible precav-ling right and left before cross-success till they
present- At the present and adopted more nedern weapons: able of their friends and relations, suaded into such an adventure. More normal people, like myself, would be tions for the safety of the ing á rond. public should be over-looked. stage, however, nothing more is such as a business education, sictho-advising them also to come south.
The exodus from Scotland became ourselves in England. Our spiritua! correspondingly freer to establish being asked of the people than scopes and a good bedside manger.
gardening tools, or cven
footbali sc numerous that a few years ago kome is there-preferably commuting The blowing of the sirens of His that they shall carry on normally boots. Then they made rapid strides, a group of people, all rather obs-between Delgravia and the charming
tinutely living in Scotland began to Majesty's ships, of Dockyard and pay no heed to the sirens and large tracts of England were
county of Dorset, by Scottish feel worried about the empty spaces craft, and polico vehicles; the which indiente merely a phase successfully occupied
of experiment in preparedness. doctors, gardeners, accountants, foot- by which they were surrounded, and formed i political party called the firing of maroons, as for the No-one will now deny the utility ballers, and novelists.
They felt so much at home that National Party of Scolland to stop typhoon warning, and the Dairy of such work.
presently they began to indulge in the rot.
TO-NIGHT WHEN SCOTS FEEL SENTIMENTAL
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A St. Andrew's Day Reflection-
By ERIC LINKLATER
I became a member of it, and all my former friends at once began to hate and deride me, saying that 1 wes obstructing the natural goal and destiny of all good Scots, which is to live in England.
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