Originally Posted by
MacRobert's Reply
Thanks for all the comments - yes it was a very relaxed and fun wedding.
Cavscout - I suspect the sporran started on the hip and ended up at the back as a result of sustained and rapid swinging during the Orcadian Strip the Willow!
BobsYourUncle - The brass cantle was found in a box of odd cantles in a second-hand kilt shop and bought for very little. I made the bag from a camel-skin briefcase that I bought many years ago in the souks of Marrakesh. I wonder if a camel-leather sporran is a first?
It is a very beautiful sporran indeed--great work on your part. As for it being a first, I would put money on it. Although, on second thought, given the popularity of bagpiping in the Arab world, you never know...
"Before two notes of the theme were played, Colin knew it was Patrick Mor MacCrimmon's 'Lament for the Children'...Sad seven times--ah, Patrick MacCrimmon of the seven dead sons....'It's a hard tune, that', said old Angus. Hard on the piper; hard on them all; hard on the world." Butcher's Broom, by Neil Gunn, 1994 Walker & Co, NY, p. 397-8.
Bookmarks