Published: June 01, 2017

I Know That My Redeemer Lives

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Pipers should avoid memorizing their music until the tune can be played from start to finish, fluidly, without error and at full speed. Once you memorize your music, it will become your reference every time you play. If your memory of the music has flaws in it, through repetition, you will permanently cement these flaws in your playing. Memorization is similar to the wood stain that would be added when building a bookcase – it would be the final touch to a finished product.

− John Cairns, London, Ontario

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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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