Detail description for John Wilsons Collection - Volume 1
Prolific piper in the early 20th Century, John Wilson has certainly left a legacy to the bagpipe world. Multiple winner of both gold medals, his life revolved around piping, and he took on a variety of jobs, from accounting clerk to male model, leaving as required to spend the summers playing the Games circuit. He achieves sustained success throughout the 1920s and ’30s against the likes of Robert Reid, R. U. Brown, Willie Ross, J. B. Robertson and Malcolm R. MacPherson. It was a Golden Age of piping, and John Wilson was one of the great pipers of the age. During 1936, he received 70 prizes in 72 events, winning first in 35 of them and second in 24. Two of these firsts included the Clasp at Inverness and the Former Winners’ March, Strathspey and Reel at Oban.
By this time he was flourishing as a composer, and his tunes were gaining in popularity. In 1937 he published his first book of bagpipe music containing original compositions not just by himself, but by John MacColl, G. S. McLennan, Roderick Campbell, Peter MacLeod Jr., and Ian C. Cameron. A second volume would appear in 1957 and a third in 1967. To this day the three John Wilson collections rank in stature alongside those of Willie Ross and Donald MacLeod
Achany Glen
After the Games
Alexander Laidlaw Wood
Alexander Wilson
Am breamatain tobhain dubh
Angus MacPherson
Arnish Light
Bobbie Cuthbertson
Charles D. Mactaggart
Colintion Dell
Cuil an duin
David Ross
Donald F. Ross
Donald MacLennans
Dora MacLeod
Dr. J. C. Simpson
Edinburgh City Police Pipe Band
Ian C. Cameron
Inspector Donald Campbell
Isabelle Blackley
Islay's Charms
Jim McBay's Welcome
Jimmie Robertson
John McDonald, M.B.E.
John Morrison, Assynt House
John Wilson
Leaving Lochboisdale
Loch Rannoch
Major W. G. Cameron
Mary Aitken
Mony Musk
Mr. Donald Shaw
Mrs. Alex Wilson
Mrs. Morrison of Springbank
Mrs. Terence Eden's Welcome to Cromlix
Mrs. W. G. Cameron
Pipe Major Geo. Ackroyd
Pipe Major Geo. Cruickshank
Pipe Major Wm. MacLean
Roddie Campbell
Sandy Thomson
Scots Guards March through Jerusalem
Stornoway Castle
The Argyllshire Gathering
The Foot of Garnoch
The Irish Washerwoman
The Loch Ness Monster
The Piper's Dilemma
The Salmon Leap
The Snuff Wife
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