Mr Hugh Cheape This is Me

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1. 1. History Scotland Magazine: About Us

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   Published on: 7/23/2008   Last Visited: 7/23/2008

   Mr Hugh Cheape Curator, National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh [Scottish ethnology, popular culture etc.]

2. 2. WKPF - Martin Meehan

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   Published on: 1/10/2008   Last Visited: 1/10/2008

   Hugh Cheape

3. 3. www.gulf-times.com

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   Published on: 4/20/2008   Last Visited: 4/20/2008

   In a new book to be published by the National Museums of Scotland, Hugh Cheape, a leading Gaelic historian and expert piper, argues that the origins of the instrument have been confused by decades of mythology and deliberate invention; even, he hints, by deception.Like most tartan regalia and the modern kilt, the great Highland bagpipe and many of its traditions known worldwide were manufactured by the Scots middle classes in the early 1800s in their romantic quest to rediscover their past."The written and received history of the great Highland bagpipe reflects in many of its parts the triumph of sentiment over fact ... an orthodoxy has emerged from surprisingly modest origins in the first half of the 19th century and it was elaborated by repetition, speculation and guesswork in the second," he writes.
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   Cheape credits them with creating the instrument now known as the Great Highland Bagpipe in the early 1800s.
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   But Cheape, a former curator with the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh and now with the University of the Highland and Islands, has defended his criticisms by calling for a new national collection of bagpipes and further research into the true origins and history of piping in Scotland.The mythology surrounding the bagpipes has overshadowed the instrument's real history in Scotland - one that should include an accurate appreciation of the music cultivated by the Highland Society and early Victorians, he argues. "We have to admit that the great Highland bagpipe that we now know was part of this invention of tradition," he said. - Guardian News & Media
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   In a new book to be published by the National Museums of Scotland, Hugh Cheape, a leading Gaelic historian and expert piper, argues that the origins of the instrument have been confused by decades of mythology and deliberate invention; even, he hints, by deception.Like most tartan regalia and the modern kilt, the great Highland bagpipe and many of its traditions known worldwide were manufactured by the Scots middle classes in the early 1800s in their romantic quest to rediscover their past."The written and received history of the great Highland bagpipe reflects in many of its parts the triumph of sentiment over fact ... an orthodoxy has emerged from surprisingly modest origins in the first half of the 19th century and it was elaborated by repetition, speculation and guesswork in the second," he writes.
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   Cheape credits them with creating the instrument now known as the Great Highland Bagpipe in the early 1800s.
   ...
   But Cheape, a former curator with the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh and now with the University of the Highland and Islands, has defended his criticisms by calling for a new national collection of bagpipes and further research into the true origins and history of piping in Scotland.The mythology surrounding the bagpipes has overshadowed the instrument's real history in Scotland - one that should include an accurate appreciation of the music cultivated by the Highland Society and early Victorians, he argues. "We have to admit that the great Highland bagpipe that we now know was part of this invention of tradition," he said. - Guardian News & Media