Willie Ross, G.S. McLennan & John MacDonald

[HarborSpringsPiper]

Staying on the theme of Pipers of the Past, I ran across this picture (L-R Willie Ross, G.S. McLennan, John MacDonald of Inverness) and these sound files on the Scottish Piping Society of London's website.




Willie Ross playing The Balmoral Highlanders, Balmoral Castle, The Grey Bob.
File size 3.35MB
http://www.scottishpipingsocietyoflo...m/balmoral.mp3

John MacDonald of Inverness, playing The Lament for Patrick Og MacCrimmon. File size 2.24MB
http://www.scottishpipingsocietyoflo...mon%201927.mp3

[cajuncelt]

How'd you like to be competing and have these 3 sit down at the judges bench!

[HarborSpringsPiper]

I'd say that would ratchet up the intimidation factor a notch!

[piperdown]

What a great picture...thanks for sharing!!!!

[wvpiper]

Here are some other early recordings of Ross and a couple of others

http://www.thebagpipeplace.com/library/page23.html

[NCMC]

Thanks for sharing, the website had alot of good information.

[OC Richard]

A couple observations about their uniforms:

- it's interesting to see them all wearing medals from piping competitions on their Army uniforms. I've not seen that done recently: nowadays military pipers only wear military decorations when in uniform.

- that upright belt plate isn't the normal waistbelt plate for the Cameron Highlanders.

-check out their musician's shells. More recently the PMs of the Scottish regiments wear the same shells as the other pipers.

Here are a couple photos which might be of interest:





Note that in both photos some of the men are wearing cutaway jackets, not doublets. The usual Cameron Highlanders piper's oval waistbelt buckle can be seen.
Note also that the "bagpipe within a wreath" badge didn't exist at that time, the badge which nowadays is always worn by Pipe Majors above their four stripes.