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Hongkong Telegraph.
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 otherwise rational can hear in only person who was 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 membership on the ground do. that a bagpiper is not a musician.
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I have heard an Englishman saying that he would rather listen for an hour to a pneumatic drill at work than listen for five minutes to the bagpipes. Shocked though I was, how- Such
believe men seriously 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 PREPAREDNESS (Film "Broadway Melody of 1938)
a serious costume, so they find that his bagpipe-playing con- it difficult to believe that the stituted "an excessive, unreason- BD 5263 My Cabin of Dreams F.T. (V.R. by Denny Dennis)
To-day Hongkong is to ex-strument.
bagpipe is a serious musical in- able and unnecessary noise, cap. So rare--F.T. (Vocal Refrain by Barry Gray)
(Both by Roy Fox & His Orchestral.
perience what children may find
able of being mitigated, and in- Almost everything that comes jurious to health." Stardust on the Moon-F.T.
thrilling and what adults will from Scotland, from the dialect Jack Harris & His Orchestra
quite properly ignore. It is a down, seems to seem funny to Let us be sweethearts over again-Waltz
them, except whisky. And even Well, some country people say 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 aing 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
set reached that state of pre- can cat haggis only with my gales before the magistrate we Daniel is said to be a mistransla- inspired in the hearts of the Billy Mayer! & 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." Stranger in a cup of tea-FT.
small drop of Highland blood gales being bound over to keep "bagpipe." Billy Mayer! & His Orchestra rush to shelter at a given signal, flows in my veins, I have never the peace.
The Greeks and the Romany (Both from "Craxy Days").
and decontamination squads yet felt a craving to appear in a As for the Cheshire piper, he seem also to have played the In three kinds of music the If you only knew--Waltz (from "Crest of the Waves" will prepare to speed to bombed, kilt in Fleet Street.
was actually forbidden to play bagpipe, and it is commonly be bagpipe unsurpassed-the A little co-operation from you-F.T. ("Going Grack")
This does not mean, however,
the pipes for more than points, and firemen and police that I think haggis funny: on the minutes
20 lieved that the bagpipe first march, the lament, and the Moon at Sea-Fox Trot
a day; and on three reached Britain at the time of dance. There is enough gaiety will hurriedly 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 possi-
kilt ridiculous. The truth is, I
Bad as this is, however, it is Romans declined since then that mists jigging. Film-"The Singing Marine") "tight little island," with a well-look on it with envy as the per- at least an improvement on the a few years ago a young Scots- I remember being present at I hum a Waltz-Waltz (Film--"This is my affair"') guarded hinterland, people have fect costume for men with shape- old days when the British Gov- man who was practising the a competition of country pipers
(Orlando & His Orchestra),
felt themselves anfe from in-hier calves than my own.
ernment (in 1745) made Ted Foster and His Kings of Swing vasion. For years the friend-
the pipes in the Colosseum by night one of whom-a blind old pauper I never know-F.T.
As for the prejudice against possession of bagpipes an offence was with difficulty saved from played an exceptionally merry Don't you care what anyone says?~~F.T.
Teddy Foster and His Kings of Swing liest and most cordial relations cannot understand how it ever
the bagpipe (or bagpipes), I punishable by death.
being arrested by the police for tune. One of the judges asked. "carrying unauthorised wen him what the tune was called. have existed with all near came to exist.
pons.
"The-name-of-that- tune, gald neighbours moreover. So there
the blind piper, "is "To Hell with Poverty." It is a title that is
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The common English attitude to the bagpipes is all the more at unjust because, if the "Ency-
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TO-NIGHT WHEN
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SENTIMENTAL
in-.
has been no need for claborate Farm Company's whistle preparations to meet such Pokfulum, will simultaneously clopaedia", is to be believed, it coming from the ruins instead of spirit of a great deal of pipe- The sound of the bagpipes magnificently expressive of the emergencies as air raids and inform the Colony that Govern. was from England that the bag- delighting those who heard it music, which-in Ireland at least naval bombardments. The gen- ment is studying measures for Scotland. "From England," we "Screams, groans, walls and
pipes were first introduced into
created Д reign of terror. survived chiefly in the cottages. eral public, therefore, has not its protection. The public will are told, "the bagpipe spread to
I trust, then, that the Must- been much interested in that realise
Bobs"--so a reporter described and Caledonia Government is
Ireland." It the music at the time "issuing cians' Union of Canada will re- phase of military experiment evolving measures to be applied hang men for possessing and ap- night attracted the attention of Canada after all, owes a great seems a little unreasonable to
consider ita view'that the bag- from the Colosseum on Saturday, pipe is not a musical instrument. which is concerned with the in the remote event of attack preciating an
instrument that safety of civilians; it has been
the police." by some powerful enemy whose you have taught them to play.
deal to Scotland, but I doubt asked to learn no lesson; and aircraft may be able to piercely a civilised race that has not murder was being committed troduced into Canada anything
Apart from this there is hard- Apparently, they believed that whether Scotland ever for the most part it remains in the defences of these hills, or been brought up on the bagpipes. and they permitted the musician more memorabie-more deafen- wholesome 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 tive upstart among musical in his had explained that "the bag- pipes well played. 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 aro 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 auch knowledge. mencing just what other mo- Though attack by any power is dern 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- muster the most potent striking failing support of responsible force in the world, and that people, and the gratitude of the
of my DUT one
friends, more therefore interference with Bri-masses for whom it is conceived. TN comparatively curly times, and the luxury of being sentimental about B
tolerant and ingenious than the Later the people may be asked long before tha: Enggish began to Scotland, the land they had so 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 act of a mad man, these facts the safety of the Colony. They were making determined efforts to
year-the Thirtieth of November your Nationalist associqtes,” he said, may be told where to go and conquer England. Ido not alter the truth of the what to do in the event of air yous for this, but in really there sand Scottish songs and were thank "would be tu!' 'fied by a northern
Ilistorians offer several expiana- and the birth of Robert Burns-they
migration of the English, which atatement that Hongkong's
wert raids or bombardments by big was only one reason for it; England ful that only English walters civilian population is as vulner-guns. They will be required to ta farther south than Scotland, and there to hear them. They were lux would repopulate the flighlands and
reminiscent about
Loch reinvigorate the moribund industries the Scots had a very sensible dentre uriously ablo to bullets and to gas as any remember these things, possibly for early strawberries, and a climate Lomond and Beninchie, and wonder- of Scotland.
to practise them, so that their in thich they could sit around and ed whether they should spend their "The English are a hardy and ad. other. It is common gense,
next summer holidays at Bourne-venturous people, accustomed to movements in an emergency watch other people playing cricket.
the Broads. then, in these unpredictable would be automatic-liko look- ilowever, the Scots had no great I shouth or on hen went home and colonial enterprise in savage parts
success if they abandoned their Most of them times, that no sensible precau- Ing right and left before cross-claymores, dirks, and Jeddart axes, wrote to the more alert and present- of the earth, and might well be tions for the safety of the ing a road. At the present and adopted more modern weapons: able of their friends and relations, suaded into such an adventure. More normal people, like myself, would be publlo should be over-looked. stage, however, nothing more is such on a business education, stetho-advising them also to come south.
exodus from Scotland became ourselves in England. Our spiritual correspondingly freer to exlablish being asked of the people than scopes and a good bedside manner,
gardening tools, or even footbali so numerous that a few years home is there--preferably commuting The blowing of the sirens of His that they shall carry on normallyhools. Then they made
rapid strides, a group of people, still rather obs-
were inalcly
between Belgravia and the charming living in Scotland began to Majesty's ahips, of Dockyard and pay no hood to the sirens and large tracts of England were nel worried about the empty spaces county of Dorset, ...
Can a Scot feel at home in England? craft, and police vehicles: the which indicato merely a phase successfully occupied by Scottish of experiment in preparedness,
The answer is the same as the formed a political party called the firing of maroons, as for the No-one will now deny the utility bat gard:ners, accountants, foot- by which they were surrounded, and
and novelists, They felt so much at home that National Party of Beetfang "to "stop" thawer to a better known query,
CN A Cure H typhoon warning," and the Dairy of such work.
presently they began to indulge in the rot,
A St. Andrew's Day Reflection-
By ERIC LINKLATER
The
I became a member of it, and all my former friends at once began to hule and deride me, saying that I was obstructing as nalurál goal and destiny of all good Scots, witch in to live in England.
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