Followers of the WhittakerLive blog will already know about Tytler, of course. 'Whittaker' blogged about him when it was the anniversary of his death on 12th September. (He died in 1792.) Remind yourself who he was here.
Also on this date, but many years later, the Scottish song-collector Alexander Campbell was beginning to head home after 3 months of hard toil gathering Hebridean traditional songs. On 12th October 1815, Sandy arrived in Broadford Bay on 'a heavenly morning' to see fishing boats on a perfectly calm sea. He admired the morning view before making his way by ferry to Glenelg, where he was going to interview Lieut. Donald MacCrimmon, 'the celebrated performer on the Great Highland Bagpipe'. He spent the day with MacCrimmon and his family, enjoyed hearing his playing and discussing piping, and then had a night in the pub with Alexander Bruce, the Piper of Glenelg, continuing to increase his knowledge of the manner by which pipers were trained.
- Why not look up "MacCrimmon" in the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Library catalogue? - look here.
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