Falling down the archive.org rabbit hole 2/27: Highland Bagpipe 78s
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The
archive.org's
78rpm collection
is truly vast: over 310,000 audio
recordings at the time of writing!
In it you can a diversity of wonderful audio recordings.
Here is where I discovered a trove of older highland bagpipe tunes.
And a handful more of highland bagpipe audio from other collections
after searching around, resulting in 105 tunes!
The sound quality as well as recording volume (especially the pre-1930
ones) of these audio recordings is often not great, so you may want to
not want all of these recordings in a playlist.
However, it really an amazing historical snapshot of piping.
You may notice that there are several of tunes where there are multiple digitized versions,
such as:
1949 KING GEORGE V'S ARMY (March) - MONYMUSK (Strathspey) - JENNY DANG THE WEAVER (Reel) - THE SHORES OR ARGYLL (Retreat) - PIPES AND DRUMS, SCOTS GUARDS (Training Battn.)
which has 3 versions:
1934 The Brig o' Doon; The 92nd Welcome to Edinburgh; The 92nd Volunteers; The Ballater Rant - PIPERS OF THE 2nd BATT. GORDON HIGHLANDERS has 2 copies:
Here are 21 highland bagpipe LPs that I discovered at archive.org , digitized from the original vinyl. I think my parents LP collection had at least half of them, so they are quite familiar to me. This collection has a couple of interesting entries: I originally thought that there were 2 copies of the 1959 Highland Pageantry - The Regimental Band And Pipes And Drums Of The Black Watch and 1959 Highland Pageantry - The Regimental Band And Pipes And Drums Of The Black Watch . Digging deeper, I discovered they were both published by RCA in 1959, with different catalog numbers: RCA Victor LSP-1525 and LPM-1525. They have slightly different front covers (mirror image of the same photo is used), with LSP having a banner overlaid on the top saying "LIVING STEREO...Stereo-Orthophonic High Fidelity Recordin...
This is a series of articles that are the result of an archive.org rabbit hole or holes into which I fell. It started with when I was somewhat randomly wandering around the archive.org audio collection . It resulted it me discovering a number of audio sub-collections (not archive.org collections, but collections generated by queries) very much of interest to me and perhaps others... It also resulted in me writing software that could use the archive.org API to convert a search of the audio the archive.org audio collection into an m3u playlist. This software can produce a playlist pointing to the remote audio files (as URLs), or can generate a playlist of local copies of the audio files, automating their download. But more on that later, including a discussion on some of the challenges with the metadata exposed by the archive.org scrape API. So in my initial wanderings I stumbled on a full-length LP of highland bagpipes: Here Comes The Famous 48th! The 48th ...
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