looking for a song

**Retro Red** · 8th June 07, 03:35 PM

Hail, clansman! I, too, am a member of clan Donnachaidh (Reed sept). Unfortunately, I couldn't locate "The Clan Donnachaidh Has Arrived" either.

I do have a suggestion - send an e-mail to Bill Robertson ( billrobertson@donnachaidhinternational.com ), the Vice President of Donnachaidh International. Man, if the leaders of our clan can't tell you where to find our clan's official pipe music, then brother it ain't to be had!

Best o' luck! And if you locate it, please let me know; it'd be a fine addition to my collection of Scottish music.
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**oldsoldier** · 8th June 07, 03:47 PM

Same sept as well!! Small world. I will let you know what I find out.

**Wompet** · 8th June 07, 04:26 PM

Would you let me know as well?

Gary,
one of Larry "Red" Robertson's grandkids

**oldsoldier** · 8th June 07, 04:40 PM

I'll post what information I get here, for everyone. I emailed, and am currently awaiting a response.

**Dutchomatic** · 5th December 07, 07:39 PM

Originally Posted by Retro Red

Hail, clansman! I, too, am a member of clan Donnachaidh (Reed sept). Unfortunately, I couldn't locate "The Clan Donnachaidh Has Arrived" either.

I do have a suggestion - send an e-mail to Bill Robertson ( billrobertson@donnachaidhinternational.com ), the Vice President of Donnachaidh International. Man, if the leaders of our clan can't tell you where to find our clan's official pipe music, then brother it ain't to be had!

Best o' luck! And if you locate it, please let me know; it'd be a fine addition to my collection of Scottish music.
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Howdy,

Mr. Robertson at CDI really seems like a nice guy. I haven't met him but have exchanged a number of emails with him in the past year or so. He said he didn't know either. I ended up getting the right info from Clan Centre and received "Struan Robertson's Rant", " Struan Robertson's Salute" and "The Blue Ribbon" by mail just today. All of which are clan tunes. There are many more but it would take going thru Scotland's National Archives to find them. That is if they're not lost to antiquity. I have a link for that somewhere.......

**Retro Red** · 5th December 07, 10:14 PM

Originally Posted by Dutchomatic

Howdy,

Mr. Robertson at CDI really seems like a nice guy. I haven't met him but have exchanged a number of emails with him in the past year or so. He said he didn't know either. I ended up getting the right info from Clan Centre and received "Struan Robertson's Rant", " Struan Robertson's Salute" and "The Blue Ribbon" by mail just today. All of which are clan tunes. There are many more but it would take going thru Scotland's National Archives to find them. That is if they're not lost to antiquity. I have a link for that somewhere.......

Hey, that's great, Brent, that you kept after this. I'd thought this had come to a deadend. Sounds like they sent you sheet music. That's great for a couple of pipers like you & OldSoldier, but I'd like to find some recordings of these tunes.

Interesting that you're in Galveston. My Dad was born in Friendswood. He & his family got blown to the Phoenix area by the 1918 hurricane that hit the Galveston area. When I was working for USAA in San Antonio in the mid-80s we went & visited where the family homestead was & the family gravesites in the Friendswood cemetary. Small world.

Found the following information about "Struan Robertson's Rant."
"STRUAN ROBERTSON('S RANT). AKA and see "Cockold come out of the Amrey." Scottish, Strathspey. E Minor (most versions): E Dorian (Bremner). Standard tuning. A good example of the form strathspey rant. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest appearance of the tune in print in either Stewart's 1761 collection or Robert Bremner's collection. "Struan Robertson" is known in Northumberland under the title "Cockold come out of the Amrey." One version also appears in the Gillespie Manuscript of Perth, 1768. Struan is a place name in Perthshire, a region known for its harpers in the 17th century. The Robertsons were Lairds of Lude in Perthshire. The widow of one of the lairds, John Robertson, himself having passed away in 1731, lived long enough to enthusiastically entertain Bonnie Prince Charlie at Lude in 1745, where he dallied to dance strathspeys and reels before campaigning in his unsuccessful bid for the throne. Lady Lude was said to have been so excited that she behaved "like a light giglet" and that she was "so elevated while she was about the Young Pretender that she looked like a person whose head had gone wrong."