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The American history and encyclopedia of music .., 1908
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1as 1666 can be seen from Pepys' Diary of July of that year; "To my Lord Lauderdale's house to speak with him, and find him and his lady, and some Scotch people, at supper. But at supper there played one of their servants upon the violin some Scotch tunes only; several, and the best of their country, as they seem to esteem them, by their praising and admiring them; but Lord! the strangest ayre that ever I heard in my life, and all of one cast."
3The art of printing music is of comparatively recent date, and though many of the old tunes had been in existence for decades, it was not until the year 1700 that the first collection of Scottish music appeared. This was a book of airs for violin and flute arranged by Henry Playford. Allan Ramsay published, in 1724, a collection of songs "The Tea-table Miscellany," and about the same time William Thomson brought out his "Orpheus Caledonius." During the middle of the Eighteenth Century many new melodies were composed.
5In mediæval times, the harp, fiddle, ghittern, sawtry, rebec and bagpipe were used in Scotland. Of these the most popular were the harp and bagpipe. It must be understood that the harpers and pipers were quite distinct from each other. The harpers were the singers, bards and seers; while the pipers more often were pipers only. Each chieftain had his piper or pipers as well as his bard. The harp was used principally as an accompanying instrument, while the pipe was almost purely instrumental and belonged to the open air. The harp is now almost obsolete in Scotland, the last of the old harpers having died about 1740.
7The origin of the bagpipe, the national instrument of Scotland, is lost in antiquity. It is common to Asia, Africa, and Europe, but was brought to perfection in Scotland. Previous to the Sixteenth Century, it consisted of chanter, bag, and one drone. The second drone was added early in the Sixteenth and the third in the Eighteenth Century. Anyone having heard the tone of the bagpipe never can mistake it for that of any other instrument. However harsh it may
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