melancholy thistle: Piobaireachd that are most beautiful pieces of the extant ancient ~315 pieces here? * Learned of quite a trove of new most beautiful Piobaireachd in talking with old Scottish friends at the Scottish Ligonier Highland Games, in Western Pennsylvania, on Saturday 17 September 2022 * Piobaireachd that are most beautiful pieces of the extant ancient ~315 pieces here - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1aoyqEX0axA47tesdABfthYGKj_xzljddyR5FN1fisxc/edit?usp=sharing - and am happy to share this with you so you could create a list of Piobaireachd most beautiful to your ear

Joyce - 

Kintarbert's Fancy (couldn't find this online)

Lament for MacSwan of Roaig
https://vimeo.com/143726070

Lament for only Son 

(Donald ...     and I didn't write the rest of this tune down).

Thanks too for suggesting your husband Jimmy McIntosh's resources (and my condolences). 

Piper in CMU tent from Balmoral band - 

Lament for the Children

Lament for Donald Dugal MacKay

(Robert Wallace's album "Purely Piobaireachd" for ideas

Earl of Seaforth's Salute

Lament for Alan my Son 

My favorites (presently) - 

Desperate Battle (of the Birds)

Beloved Scotland 

I Got the Kiss of the King's Hand

His Father's Lament for Donald MacKenzie 

Hoping to post some of these to my blog possibly tomorrow - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/bagpiping.

First Scottish Small Pipes'"Honey in the Bag" album is here - http://scottmacleod.com/piping.htm - and the bandcamp page for tentatively entitled "Honey Piobaireachd" as well. 

~ Honey  in the Bag ~
... NEW Scottish Small Piping (2020) ALBUM ... https://scottmacleodhoneyinthebagscottishsmallpipesbagpiping.bandcamp.com/

Nice to meet you and let's stay in touch. May see you around the Games this afternoon too. (Just held CC-4 ocw.mit.edu -centric Wiki World Univ & Sch's Monthly Business Meeting at the local Ligonier Valley Public library, and here are the Agenda and News - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2022/09/linnaea-amabilis-sat-91722-agenda-and.html ... with more about WUaS in this blog post with the 9/12/22 WUaS News and Q&A - 

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2022/09/liriodendron-tulipifera-american-tulip.html).

Thanks for all the lyrical, melodic, pretty, favorite, great Piobaireachd suggestions!

As Aye, 

Scott

bagpiping label in daily blog - 

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/bagpiping 

Here are the beginning CC-4 OCW.MIT.EDU -centric Wiki Bagpiping World University and School schools for open teaching and learning, so far only in English (ie not yet in Scottish Gaelic ... ) ... They will grow as we all wiki-teach to and learn from these :)

Scottish_smallpipes_and_borderpipes

Bagpipe_Tutorial

Pibroch,_Piobaireachd_or_Ceol_Mor

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Pibroch,_Piobaireachd_or_Ce%C3%B2l_M%C3%B3r 

Great_Highland_Bagpipe 

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Great_Highland_Bagpipe 

So nice to get your email, Joyce, and thanks for suggesting exploring teaching Piping (again having just taught Piobaireachd to a student online over about 1.5 years) - and potentially regarding Piobaireachd classical Scottish Bagpiping music's most beautiful tunes, - and re The St. Andrew's Society of Pittsburgh. I'd like to introduce you all to Lyn Reed Orr, who was the representative of the St Andrews Society at the information tent near the field. Thank you Lyn for making it possible to apply for membership in the St Andrews Society of Pittsburgh (https://www.standrewspittsburgh.org/). Joyce MacFarlane McIntosh was my piping teacher in Pittsburgh in the mid 1970s! 

Instead of the tentative title of "Honey Piobaireachd," I may name my upcoming album of beautifully played Piobaireachd "Prettiest Piobaireachd" - thanks to all of your great suggestions today. Pretty Piobaireachd, even most beautiful lyrical melodic pretty Piobaireachd favorites and compositions of genius somehow are what I am seeking, so Thank you!

Thanks for mentioning also, before & since Joyce's and my emails, the following tunes (other pipers not in this email thread) -

"Field of Gold" (by Donald MacLeod, so a contemporary tune, not one from the mid 1800s, and similarly ancient!) and 

"Donald of Laggan" and 

"The Lament for Mary MacLeod"! And 

"Lament for the Children" 3x mentioned! (which I don't know very well at all).

Thanks again for your email, Joyce and communication, Lyn and All - and talking at the Ligonier Highland Games today!

I actually have a spreadsheet for most beautiful Piobaireachd tunes - to my ear - that I'm developing from a list of about 315 old Piobaireachd... And am very glad for all of your suggestions! Let's keep this piping music conversation going with time and via the Web! Thanks again!

As Aye, Scott

Some further resources -

Seeking to find and create a list of

Dear Joyce, Don & Max, All,  

Wow, quite a treasure trove of beautiful Piobaireachd classical Scottish Bagpiping music suggestions... I've gathered together some great recordings for your enjoyment, and to begin to soon play some of these. Thanks again so so much for suggesting these ...

Donald MacLeod

https://youtu.be/ZHhnGMIs6k8 

Donald of Laggan, Lament for ...

Some people also mentioned - 

Patrick Regan

George Balderose

Andrew Carlisle (CMU Director of their pipe band) 

as knowledgeable resources for favorite most beautiful Piobaireachd piping tunes too. 

Thanks again for your really wonderful musical beautiful pretty Piobaireachd favorites' suggestions! Amazing what comes from asking and talking. And nice to meet you! 

Hoping to post some of this to my blog possibly tomorrow - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/bagpiping 

Great to see you too Ken Thompson MD especially at the Ligonier Highland Games today! :)

Cheers, 

Scott

PS

What do you think of these guidelines for practicing a musical instrument, beginning with the word INSPIRATION -

? :)

Good to talk with you too, Max, and let's explore further riffing on the Scottish bagpipes with the Allman Brothers AT Cow Palace in SF in '73 with machine learning and AI and even Piobaireachd melodies - https://youtu.be/DNAmXz8kc6I (am waiting on a Peter Norvig to help with this in the Google's ecosystems) - which I hear the potential for beginning at about the 2 hours 30 minutes' mark around Bo Diddly, and from your Nevada days.

Further Piobaireachd classical Scottish Bagpiping music thinking here mentioning the Allman Brothers AT Cow Palace in 73 concert - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/04/passiflora-ligularis-bagpiping.html

Would you like to explore learning Piobaireachd classical Scottish Bagpiping music, beautifully played together?

Regards, Scott

Thanks again for your emails, and great to talk with you. (So great to see you Joyce afterall these ~5 decades:) and to learn that you have been playing for and organizing the Highland dance at the Ligonier Highland Games over the past 40 years, coming north from South Carolina!)

Max, again - thank you - and good to talk with you, and let's explore further riffing on the Scottish bagpipes with the Allman Brothers AT Cow Palace in SF in '73 with machine learning and AI and even Piobaireachd melodies - https://youtu.be/DNAmXz8kc6I (am waiting on a Peter Norvig to help with this in the Google's ecosystems) - which I hear the potential for beginning at about the 2 hours 30 minutes' mark around Bo Diddly, and from your Nevada days.

Thanks for your suggestions, Joyce, to teach piping, and potentially regarding the St Andrew's Society information tent at the Ligonier Highland Games. And nice to meet you, Lyn:).

And great to see you Frank (Cindrich) my housemate in 2006-2007 in Pittsburgh, now the MC of the Scottish Celtic Rock stage with grassy hillside at the Ligonier Highland Games for the 2nd year in a row. Thanks too for co-connecting on Twitter - 

(also https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1570376772859879424)

Frank, Don, all, thoughts about riffing on the Scottish bagpipes #ScottishSmallPipes (with the same fingering as the Highland Bagpipe) .. with the Allman Brothers AT Cow Palace in SF in '73 with machine learning and AI and even with Piobaireachd melodies - https://youtu.be/DNAmXz8kc6I (am waiting on a Peter Norvig to help with this in Google's ecosystems) - which I hear much potential for beginning at about the 2 hours 30 minutes' mark around Bo Diddly?

Scott

Am much on Twitter exploring these ideas for online music making and piping and Piobaireachd classical Scottish Bagpiping music beautifully played too - 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cirsium_heterophyllum