{"id":4326,"date":"2019-10-19T12:00:17","date_gmt":"2019-10-19T17:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/?p=4326"},"modified":"2019-10-19T12:00:17","modified_gmt":"2019-10-19T17:00:17","slug":"compositions-by-gordon-macdonald-of-island-bagpipe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/?p=4326","title":{"rendered":"Compositions by Gord(on) MacDonald of Island Bagpipe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many of you will be familiar with Gord MacDonald of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.islandbagpipe.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Island Bagpipe<\/a>. Gord also runs a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bagpipe-id.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bagpipe identification website<\/a>. Gord and I have gone back and forth about a few things piping over the years and I have used Island Bagpipe as a retail supplier many times (sometimes it&#8217;s cheaper shipping from Canada!). Many years ago, I&#8217;m thinking 2013, I asked around for tunes that people had composed that I could play on the blog and Gord took me up on it. He didn&#8217;t know it would take 6 years but I finally got around to recording the tunes he sent me; though I&#8217;m still sight reading them so bare with me a bit.<\/p>\n<p>Pipes are Colin Kyo drones and chanter with Ackland 480 drone reeds and Husk chanter reed. Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/kyle_macdonald.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kyle MacDonald<\/a><\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-4326-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/kyle_macdonald.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/kyle_macdonald.mp3\">http:\/\/www.patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/kyle_macdonald.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/the_flatliners.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Flatliners (Jim Medley&#8217;s Hornpipe)<\/a><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-4326-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/the_flatliners.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/the_flatliners.mp3\">http:\/\/www.patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/the_flatliners.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/the_crocodile_smile.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Crocodile Smile<\/a><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-4326-3\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/the_crocodile_smile.mp3?_=3\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/the_crocodile_smile.mp3\">http:\/\/www.patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/the_crocodile_smile.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/heathers_jig.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Heather&#8217;s Jig<\/a><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-4326-4\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/heathers_jig.mp3?_=4\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/heathers_jig.mp3\">http:\/\/www.patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/heathers_jig.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/william_g_pritchard.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">William G. Pritchard<\/a><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-4326-5\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/william_g_pritchard.mp3?_=5\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/william_g_pritchard.mp3\">http:\/\/www.patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/william_g_pritchard.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of you will be familiar with Gord MacDonald of Island Bagpipe. Gord also runs a bagpipe identification website. Gord and I have gone back and forth about a few things piping over the years and I have used Island Bagpipe as a retail supplier many times (sometimes it&#8217;s cheaper shipping from Canada!). Many years &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/?p=4326\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Compositions by Gord(on) MacDonald of Island Bagpipe<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dronesounds","category-ghbsolo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4332,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4326\/revisions\/4332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}