Venue: Kirkcudright Pipe Band Hall, Daar Road, Kirkcudbright DG6 4LG
Richard McLauchlan is a writer and piper who has written the first accessible cultural history of this iconic instrument, in which he investigates how a ‘national instrument’ can shift its meaning and identity - from inspiring terror on battlefields to enriching cultures worldwide. As Piping Press said ‘this is the book I am giving to every person I know who expresses even the slightest interest in piping and the pipes’.
Venue: Kirkcudright Pipe Band Hall, Daar Road, Kirkcudbright DG6 4LG
Richard McLauchlan is a writer and piper who has written the first accessible cultural history of this iconic instrument, in which he investigates how a ‘national instrument’ can shift its meaning and identity - from inspiring terror on battlefields to enriching cultures worldwide. As Piping Press said ‘this is the book I am giving to every person I know who expresses even the slightest interest in piping and the pipes’.
Richard McLauchlan is a Scottish writer, educated at the Universities of St Andrews and Cambridge, and a former pipe major, taught by the renowned instructor Colin MacLellan. The author of Serious Minds, and John Campbell's collaborator on Haldane (both published by Hurst), Richard co-founded the educational charity Light Up Learning.
