Auld Adam
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Re: Auld Adam
This tune is NOT a "traditional" piece but was written by Pipe Major Donald Shaw Ramsay, BME, 10th Highland Light Infantry, City of Edinburgh Police Pipe Band, InverGordon Distillery Pipe Band. Just so you know.
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Auld Adam
I believe that the copyright has expired. Don told me that the published version was incorrect in any case. I don't think you need to remove it, I just wanted him given due credit for writing a really nice little tune.
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Auld Adam
Sadly, Don Ramsay passed away quite a while ago. I believe he wrote that tune back in the late forties.
At twenty, Donald Shaw Ramsay was the youngest Pipe Major ever in the British Army. He led the 10th Batt. HLI onto Sword Beach at Normandy. (That would be D-Day during World War Two, for those of you scratching your heads.)
He wrote the famous tune "The 10th Battalion Highland Light Infantry Crossing the Rhine" to celebrate the first Allied unit to cross the river.
Pipe Major Ramsay, BEM, led the City of Edinburgh Police Pipe Band to win two World Championships before being shot in the stomach and forced to retire from the police force due to his injuries. He went on to be PM for The San Francisco Pipe Band, and later of course put together the world famous InverGordon Distillery Band.
He introduced the playing of hornpipes and jigs to pipe band competitions, which has led to the modern medley in competition. He was a prolific composer of beautiful tunes, an extraordinary piper, teacher and a true gentleman.
My Dad played with him in the fifties and sixties. I was lucky enough to have some lessons with him as well.
I know that CeolSean has his Edcath books available, and they deal only with expired copyrights. (I believe the books were published in '53 and '54.)
Personally, I don't believe Don would have had a problem with his music being available to the general public (the web wasn't in the truly wide-spread general use of today during his lifetime), as long as it was transcribed correctly and credited him as the composer. He allowed me to use his handwritten compositions for my students back in the days of photocopying with those two provisions.
Were it up to me, I should put it back up. I just wanted to make sure he got credit for his music.
At twenty, Donald Shaw Ramsay was the youngest Pipe Major ever in the British Army. He led the 10th Batt. HLI onto Sword Beach at Normandy. (That would be D-Day during World War Two, for those of you scratching your heads.)
He wrote the famous tune "The 10th Battalion Highland Light Infantry Crossing the Rhine" to celebrate the first Allied unit to cross the river.
Pipe Major Ramsay, BEM, led the City of Edinburgh Police Pipe Band to win two World Championships before being shot in the stomach and forced to retire from the police force due to his injuries. He went on to be PM for The San Francisco Pipe Band, and later of course put together the world famous InverGordon Distillery Band.
He introduced the playing of hornpipes and jigs to pipe band competitions, which has led to the modern medley in competition. He was a prolific composer of beautiful tunes, an extraordinary piper, teacher and a true gentleman.
My Dad played with him in the fifties and sixties. I was lucky enough to have some lessons with him as well.
I know that CeolSean has his Edcath books available, and they deal only with expired copyrights. (I believe the books were published in '53 and '54.)
Personally, I don't believe Don would have had a problem with his music being available to the general public (the web wasn't in the truly wide-spread general use of today during his lifetime), as long as it was transcribed correctly and credited him as the composer. He allowed me to use his handwritten compositions for my students back in the days of photocopying with those two provisions.
Were it up to me, I should put it back up. I just wanted to make sure he got credit for his music.
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