A
change-house (Scottish)
is a small inn or alehouse.
This tune is from the
1848 collection, The Caledonian Repository of Music Adopted
for the Bagpipes by William Gunn.
William Gunn was born in
Kildonan. He competed in the Highland Society's piping
competitions and was 5th in Edinburgh in 1824 having moved to
Glasgow the preceding year. He became a bagpipe maker around
1834. He died February14, 1867.
Gunn was credited with
being the first to make a smallpipe chanter that tuned to the
highland bagpipes scale and used the same fingering. He was a
prolific composer and was published in his own book as well as
William Ross’.
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