Detail description for John Wilsons Collection- Volume 2
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
Abercairney Highlanders, The
Alex. Massie's Hare
Amy Gollan
Anna Doddie
Artafallie
Balmoral Highlanders, The
Blue-Eyed Collie, The
Bogan Lochan
Braes o' Badenoch, The
Camerons' Farewell to Aldershot, The
Captain Duncan McGregor
Colin Mackay
Colin Thomson
Detroit Calling
Duke of Bannockburn, The
Finlay McKenzie
George Duncan
Glenogle Highlanders , The
Hamilton Bay
Her Majesty's Welcome to Glen Fiddich
Highland Kitty
Hills of Perth, The
Holyrood Park
How I Long to Hear the Pipes Again(In prison camp-1941)
Ian's Lullaby
John Grieve
John Keir
Judging Was Bad, The
Kinloch Rannoch Pipe Band, The
Kinlochaline Castle
Lairig Ghru, The
Lament for the Old Reedmakers
Loch Rannoch(Seconds)
Lochaber Gathering, The
Lochiel's Away to France
Mad Major, Seconds
Mad Major, The
Maid on the Green, The
Margaret Kennedy
Marketplace of Inverness, The
Mrs. John Wilson
Padruig Og
Pipe Major John Stewart
Pretty Marion
Road to Lonach, The
Sean Trubhais
Shepherd's Crook, The
St. Valery
Swords, The
Thoughts o' Burns (Strathspey)
Thoughts o' Burns (Reel)
Tom Kettles
Toronto Exhibition Park
Toronto Scottish Regiment, The
Wee Man in the Boat, The
Willie McRostie
Zorra Highland Gathering, The
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