Gt may ibe thatthe modern world sinae guaxtial to "Black Joe' Blues" or the "Kikihooshi Wriggle" than Jit is to Highland music, but that does not affect the romance of} the latter, which has been brought notice again by a programme of 1 Naval and Military Tour
Protinent pact in one of the dis-of the Scots Guards took ondon Jas reeved, The
lays and two of the pieces they' played were "The Hills of Kow-{oon" and "Shanghai's Farewell to the 2nd Batt, Scots Guards." That way that Scottish pipers have. Wherever they are stationed, if the place or their purpose there are in any way out of the ordinary, some tone amongst them will compose a une commemorative of the place and a march as a "farewell," this Curiesy having resulted in giving Scotland many of her finest military. marches. "The. Hills of Kowloon" wis written by Pipe-Mgjor Melnash, who sell be so well remembered in. "Shanghai. "Sha Fare: "well" comes even closer to the Settlement, for it was composed by Mr.
Maclennan, who was taught the Shanghai Another march in the ser always popular "Barren Rocks of "Aden" and it is likely that few who applaud it s0 heartily know the pathetic story attached to it wi the Seaforth Highlanders we Aden they fell all: to0 easy victims to the fevers of that. inhospitable climate and the splendid. regiment! was decimated. "Pipe-Major Me-Kinnon lay dying, nursed assid-unonaly' by a lady. who. was much attracted by him. One day she told him that she was constantly haunted by a few bars of a tune she could not identify. These she hummed to hor patient, who also could not recognise them, but they appealed shim and, on his death-bed, he did the necessary elaboration and composed "The Barren Rocks of "Aden," which has exercised so great an appeal because of the Tilt which yung through its melancholy.
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