Double Checking B&W Pic of Royal Stewart

[Dixiecat]

pics looked reduced with loss, like with Infranview

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[george7]

I'm pretty confident that the kilt is MacGregor.

[Jack Daw]

Being red-green color blind, I'm not always confident of colors, so my eye relies more on patterns. I wear the MacGregor kilt and the piper's looks MacG to me.

[wvpiper]

Trouble I had on the website was that some of the pics looked reduced with loss, like with Infranview, where the tartan pattern gets scrambled.

What puzzled me some is that in the B&W pic Dr. Hott's bag tartan and kilt tartan seem different.

Its just a guess he played with the Macleay band since it's old and his regalia seems to match.

Scenario1) He was in the band, but back then they hadn't yet adopted the Royal Stewart as the band tartan, and so he wore MacGregor b/c that was his clan affiliation. Or, he wore MacGregor during personal appearnaces rather than the band's tartan.

Scenario2) He wasn't in the band-royal stewart bag covers were, and still are, common, as is his piper's doublet.

To be sure we'd need some band pictures from that era.

It's a nice picture. It looks like their posing-do you know why?
I hope he's not actually playing-inside like that, so close to people, it can be ear splitting

[Jack Daw]

I hope he's not actually playing-inside like that, so close to people, it can be ear splitting

Well, if it's just a pose, he may have kept the volume down by playing only and holding the High A with a crow.

[Galician]

Ron, great pic! Two questions: 1) Any idea why your mother would seem to be taking notes? 2) I notice the pin your mother is wearing, looks to be a deer/hart. Any special significance to that in your family/clan?