The Highland Bagpipe

“THE CORONACH”

(From the Painting by R. R. Mac Ian)

The Highland Bagpipe
Its History, Literature, and Music
WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF THE
Traditions, Superstitions, and Anecdotes
Relating to
The Instrument and Its Tunes

BY
W. L. MANSON
The tune with the river in it, the fast river and the courageous, that kens not stop nor tarry, that runs round rock and over fall with a good humour, yet no mood for anything but the way before it.—Neil Munro.
ALEXANDER GARDNER
Publisher to Her late Majesty Queen Victoria
PAISLEY; AND 26 PATERNOSTER SQUARE, LONDON
1901
TO
A. DEWAR WILLOCK
EDITOR OF THE
Glasgow Weekly Herald
WHO JUDICIOUSLY BLUE-PENCILLED THE FIRST ISSUE OF THESE ARTICLES AND ENCOURAGED THE WRITER TO GIVE THEM TO THE PUBLIC IN THIS MORE PERMANENT FORM