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Re: Query: pipes in Va.
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Michael Bell <[log in to unmask]>
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Check http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/h/Hairston,George for a reference
to (among all things) a costumed bagpipe-playing Scottish Highlander
at Wytheville!

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-----Original Message-----
From:   Douglas Day [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent:   Thursday, October 31, 2002 2:19 PM
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Subject:        [VA-HIST] Query: pipes in Va.

Does anyone know of ANY reference to bagpipes--Irish, uillean, "Union,"
or Scottish highland--being played in Virginia at any time before the
20th century?

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Douglas Day, M.A., Ph.D.
Executive Director
Albemarle County Historical Society
The McIntire Building
200 Second Street, NE
Charlottesville, Va. 22902-5245
434.296.1492
fax 434.296-4576
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