DESCRIPTION:
Celtic finger arrangement arranged and performed by myself of two Scottish Highland bagpipe tunes, "Lord Lovat's Lament." and "Bonnie Dundee." Both tunes are tributes to heroes of the Jacobite Wars-Lord Lovat, who was beheaded by the British on Tower Hill following the 1746 Battle of Culloden, and John Graham of Claverhouse, 1st Viscount Dundee, who fell at the Battle of Killiecrankie in 1689. These arrangements, here played on a 1931 Martin 0-21 guitar, employ a technique I devised of sounding octaves in the bass with the right-hand thumb and index finger while playing an ornamented melody with the ring and middle fingers. There are hundreds of pipe tunes that can be played on guitar this way. These arrangements are on my CD, "Brian Boru's March." "Bonnie Dundee" was published in the August 1998 issue of Acoustic Guitar magazine. For further details, visit www.celticguitarmusic.com. - Glenn Weiser