who are the Gilnockie Highlanders?

[MacCathail]

If Glasgow can have Highlanders (cf: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow_Highlanders ) surely Gilnockie can't be denied the privilege?

There is a tune for the highland pipes called Gilnockie. IIRC, it's a 3/4 retreat, or possibly a slow air. It's not in the repertoire but I do have a copy of it around here some place. (It should be in the Big Black Binder with the other xeroxes and hand-written copies but the Big Black Binder itself has gone missing, which is not a good thing.) The theme is supposed to be from a Mozart violin piece, although you couldn't prove it by me.

Cheers,

-John-

[ctbuchanan]

A quick search on Spotify (a music streaming site) came up with one song; "Amazing Grace" of course on an album called "Golden Instrumentals Vol. 3" with an add date of 2006. The artwork on the album looks much, much older.

The version was OK - sounds like 3-4 pipes and an organ. But the pipes could have been over dubbed.

The rest of the album is some pretty bad instrumentals from countries all over the world.

[OC Richard]

There is a tune for the highland pipes called Gilnockie.

Odd it's not in Robert Pekaar's encyclopedia of Highland pipe tunes, which is pretty exhaustive.

Of course new tunes and new books are appearing all the time, and my copy is out of date, from the 1990s.

[Bruce Scott]

There's a reel being played here called Gilnockie Castle:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkJb...aGnnU7QlSLIe7G

[MacSpadger]

If Glasgow can have Highlanders (cf: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow_Highlanders ) surely Gilnockie can't be denied the privilege?

The Glasgow Highlanders were formed in 1868 from Highland migrants to Glasgow, 11,000 of them Gaelic speaking with no English. By the 1903 census there were 18,500 Highland migrants in Glasgow with Gaelic as their first language.

These people were most definitely Highlanders, by blood, by language, by culture.