Published: October 31, 2006

Iain MacInnes: the p|d Interview – Part 1

An interview with the great piper and longtime BBC producer
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Drummers: Relatively speaking, compared with a practice pad, a soft tap on a drum will sound fairly loud unless it is exaggerated. To get a light sound on a drum you have to play extra quiet.

− Michael Hunter, Toronto

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October 21

Steamship Comet II sinks on the Clyde river, 1825. Among 62 drowned were Capt. Wemyss Erskine Sutherland, of “Lament for Captain Wemyss Sutherland” by William Gunn, John Ban MacKenzie’s younger brother, Ronald, who a few weeks earlier had been awarded third prize at the Edinburgh competition, and Alexander Gray, a piper from Fort William. It was said the passengers were dancing on deck at the time of the collision.
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