Kenneth Robson and the Argyll-Sutherland Highlanders (1967): 4/4 Marches medley
Channel: Michael Kazmierski Dunn
Date: 22/04/2022

Here is quite a unique vinyl album by the pipes and drums of the 1st Battalion Argyll-Sutherland Highlanders. Their Pipe Major is Kenneth Robson, and this album was recorded in 1967. The record company is Music For Pleasure (number 50221)
This set consists of the following tunes:
The Barren Rocks of Aden (Mauchline and MacKellar), The Brown Haired Maiden (trad), Mairi's Wedding (trad), Corriechoille's 43rd Welcome to the Northern Meeting (William Ross, 1879 - 1976) Jenny's Bawbee (trad), The High Road to Gairloch (trad), The Sweet Maid of Glendaruel (trad)
Technologically this was a difficult vinyl record to remaster. It was first digitized on Archive.org. Then I put it through ClickRepair, and then the hard part was correcting the all too common warping that occurs on almost every piping vinyl record. This was a near nightmare. I literally took an entire day to do it, and add to this the fact that because several sets of pipes are playing, you can't use a pilot tone to correct the warps by having a pure pitch, such as a single set of drones, follow a generated tone. So, I had to do it all by ear, and I can hazard a guess I missed several warps (for those of you with perfect pitch). So do not expect the recording to be perfectly warp-free. The only way to get that is to digitize it right from the tape on which it was originally recorded.