So I’ve been sitting on these since November, my friend has a set of 1950’s Robertsons and we were fiddling around with which reeds sounded best in them. So Cannings were the verdict. Listen here:
Robertsons with Canning drone reeds
We put the Wygents that were in his Robertsons in my Centers, listen here:
3/4 Centers with Wygent drone reeds
The MSRHJ
An old album I have on cassette tape, the William Livingstone Senior Memorial, or something like that, had the contestants play a set consisting of a 2/4 March, Strathspey, Reel, Hornpipe, and Jig. It’s a great album and I’ve been hooked on playing all 5 together since.
I’ve got a little contraption to hold my left pinkie finger out of the way as it has been detrimental to the performance of my left ring finger for some time now. The contraption certainly seemed to help.
The Rossshire Volunteers (march), Susan MacLeod (strathspey), Charlie’s Welcome (reel), Pipe Major George Allan (hornpipe), The Herringwife (jig):
Kantara to El Arish (march), Dora MacLeod (strathspey), Captain Lachlan MacPhail of Tiree (reel), Lucy Cassidy (hornpipe), and Alan MacPherson of Mosspark (jig):
And a couple 6/8 marches for good measure, Mrs. Lily Christie and Miss Ishabel T. MacDonald: