Donald Patrick Sargent

A celebration of 70 years of composing – by Geoff Hore

Donald Patrick Sargent 2013

‘Composing is the easiest thing in the world, if you can do it.

Pipe Major Donald MacLeod’

THE FIRST ARTICLE in this series about New Zealand Composers of Bagpipe Music was

published in the New Zealand Pipe Band magazine August 2001 and the composer

who featured was Donald Patrick Sargent. The article coincided with the publication

of The Muckle Dram Collection that contained 95 of Donald’s tunes. Since that

milestone in New Zealand bagpipe music publishing history, he has continued

composing and recently a number of significant events have occurred that warrants

the retelling of his life story as well as updating recent developments.

Donald Patrick Sargent was born in Dannevirke, a small provincial town in the lower

part of the North Island of New Zealand on 11 July 1925. He was the youngest of five

children by nine years and had three brothers and a sister. During his childhood he

lived at Matamau, a country district a few miles north of Dannevirke where his

parents had a small farm. His father was New Zealand born with parents from

Lincolnshire in England, whilst his mother’s family came from Tipperary in Ireland.

Oddly enough it was his father who had a passionate fondness for the music of the

Highland Bagpipe and saw to it that Donald was taught the pipes at 10 years of age.

His first teacher was George Rose who was a member of the Ruahine Highland Pipe

Band. George used to call at the farm on his way to band practice at the Matamau

country hall. Later Donald joined the main group for chanter practice. He had a

natural talent for music and could play the mouth organ, tin whistle and melodeon

before he started on the pipes. The neighbours used to say, ‘Young Sargent could get

a tune out of a seven-wire fence.’

When Donald was 11 the family sold the farm and moved to Dannevirke where he

attended the local High School. In 1939 a pipe band was formed at the school of

which he became the Pipe Major. The following year the Ruahine Band won the New

Zealand Championship for the first time.

At the conclusion of his secondary schooling, Donald moved to Wellington and there

he met Bruce McCann who became his tutor for three years and friend for life. He

always maintained ‘McCann was a good piper but a great teacher’. He learned a

piobaireachd or two from Bruce McCann but after he returned to Dannevirke there

was no source of tuition available, so he concentrated on small music, both band and

solo. It was during this time that he started composing and has continued up to the

present time. In 1946 Donald played with the Ruahine Band and later became Musical

Director of the Dannevirke and District Pipe Band and in 1953 they won the New

Zealand B Grade Championships. Later the Band competed strongly in A Grade until

1960 when loss of members forced it to retire from competition. In 1961 Donald was

appointed to the New Zealand Pipe Band Association’s Panel of Judges on which he

served for 27 years until his retirement in 1988. He was also in demand as a solo

judge and retired from that panel in 1996.

Throughout his personal life he was involved in accountancy and secretarial work; the

last 21 years of his working life were as secretary to the Woodville-Pahiatua Racing

Club based in Woodville. Donald spent a couple of years in Ireland in the 1950s and

has been back twice on holiday to Scotland and Ireland in 1992 and 1998, both times

in the company of his old crony Willie Anderson.

Donald was married in 1959 and had three children, Ewan, Terry and Margaret. Terry

died accidentally in 1982 at the age of 18 and wife Mary passed away in January 1993.

All his family are remembered in the tunes that bear their names.

Donald lived in Woodville for 51 years where his main interest, apart from piping and

pipe music, was in holistic healing work. In 2006 he moved from Woodville, over the

Ruahine Ranges to Ashhurst, a small town closer to Palmerston North and is still

actively involved in holistic healing.

Donald is now 88 years old and although generally in good health his eyesight is failing.

In 2006 he could no longer accurately record the tunes in manuscript so purchased a

computer and installed the bagpipe music-writing programme Electric Pipes by

Andrew Baker of Auckland, New Zealand. He admits that without this, and assistance

from Andrew, none of the tunes composed over the last seven years would have

been recorded. Since then, the problem has worsened, and Donald has ‘hung up his

quill’ and ‘invited his Muse to find a new scribe’.

There are many from the older generation who openly admit they have no desire to

get involved with computers, but not Donald. He very quickly learned the basics and

rapidly became quite deft at emailing, surfing the internet and setting up his newly

composed tunes. He was not aware of the power and speed of converting files to pdf

and still sent copies of tunes via 'snail mail'. However, once told about the availability

of internet downloads he located a pdf programme, installed it, and then emailed his

latest tune - all within the hour.

In the eight years following the publication of the The Muckle Dram Collection in 2001

Donald composed 25 new tunes that were published in Cuth Selby’s Pipe Tunes by

Valda & Ewen McCann in 2009. The following four years have probably been the most

prolific of Donald’s 70 year composing marathon and a further 31 new tunes have

appeared. Also, another five previously lost or forgotten tunes have surfaced.

During the 1950s, 60s and 70s Donald was actively involved in the competition scene,

as a soloist, in pipe bands and judging, and the desire to emulate compositions like

those that had become the standard fare in these events was foremost in his mind.

Most of the tunes in The Muckle Dram Collection are similar in style to the existing

classics and often their quality is not too far away from the mark. As he got older

Donald’s mood changed and over the last decade and a half many tunes have moved

away from the heavy competition style to a more ‘user friendly’ means of creating

good music. Pipers who wish to play simpler more melodic tunes at a ceilidh or for

themselves will find many from the last 15 years that will appeal. Donald created a

number of high-quality tunes in his early years, but many believe that all those from

the last decade or so are amongst his best compositions.

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Interest has been expressed from within New Zealand and overseas for a reprint of

the The Muckle Dram Collection but the cost of producing just a few copies would be

uneconomical. However, by the end of 2012 there were so many new compositions

it did seem that publishing a new book would be financially viable and to reprint the

original book at the same time suddenly became a reality. The writer mulled over the

logistics of producing two books but kept putting it off ‘until he had more time’. The

prod came after the Waipu Highland Gathering on New Year’s Day 2013 when the

writer was having a quiet dram with Allan Cameron and the subject of a new book

was discussed. Allan, in his forthright manner, said ‘…you should get off your arse

and do it!’ It took just overt six months but in August the The Muckle Dram Collection

Books 1 & 2 were published.

The content of The Muckle Dram Collection Book 1 has the same 95 tunes, but the

book has undergone a few changes. It is now in portrait shape and the page layout

has been altered. In the earlier landscape format, there were a number of six parted

tunes that went onto two pages; each tune is now on one page. There were also

some tunes at the end that were added at the final stages of production but in the

new publication these have been included with other tunes of the same genre. The

preliminary material has been retained except for the photographs and a new Preface

has been added. The Frontispiece of Book 1 has a photograph of Donald at the early

part of his composing career and Book 2 has a photograph taken in 2013. Both books

have been formatted in accordance with the principals laid out in The Oxford Guide

to Style by R M Ritter, published by Oxford University Press 2002.

The Muckle Dram Collection Book 2 is a collection of 56 tunes composed since 2001

and a further five from earlier times that have only recently been discovered. One of

the older tunes is a hornpipe composed for the flute in 1974 and is called Irish

Hornpipe for Barbara. Anyone interested in listening to the tune can access it in the

sound file at the bottom of the front page of the www.silverchanter.com website. It

is a delightful tune but, alas, does not fit the Highland bagpipe scale.

The first seven tunes are slow airs and laments. The Green Glade was composed in

about 1950 and although intended to be played in the Test Selection it never was. In

the mid 1950s a number of members of the Ruahine Pipe Band lived in very close

proximity and they nicknamed the area ‘The Glen’. In 1956 Donald composed a lovely

slow air called Return to the Glen. In late 2009 Donald was feeling a little nostalgic in

his 85th year and composed a tune called Of Times Long Gone that

reflected this. Donald experienced a sad moment when Kalene Macleod, wife of the

late Bill MacLeod of Rotorua died in 2006. A haunting Lament for Kalene MacLeod

sums up his feelings at that time.

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Another lament, Four Cold Winds, acknowledges that those at the Army Officers

Cadet School of New Zealand, (OCS) come from four corners of the globe to train in a

harsh and uncompromising environment before scattering to the utmost ends of the

earth. It recognises the sadness of those who farewell cadets when they leave OCS

and the chill felt sometimes by those who farewell graduates deploying overseas

during their service after graduation. The tune was first played publicly at the

November 2008 Beating of the Retreat by Major Greg Wilson, ONZM, NZRE.

During his trip to Scotland and Ireland in 1998 Donald met a number of delightful

people with whom he has maintained a long-lasting friendship. Margaret Dunn (nee

Houlihan) and her husband Alastair, both top class pipers, are two and there are a

number of tunes in this book composed for them and their family. A Lullaby for Rory

Dunn is for their second son and Donald considers it the best slow air he has

composed. Morag Melville is a delightful slow air composed for another of his close

friends.

Richie McCaw is the first of six two parted 2/4, 3/4 and 4/4 marches. Named after one

of the best Rugby Union players this country has ever produced but we should not

forget that he is also a piper. Jim Logan was the District Grand Master of Lodges of

Hawkes Bay and a lover of the pipes. James Logan D. G. M. (Hawkes Bay) was

commissioned by other Lodge members as a tribute and is played frequently when

‘piping in’ dignitaries on Lodge nights.

Margaret and Alastair Dunn took their first-born son Callum back to their homeland

for Christmas 2009. Donald composed another melodic march to celebrate the

occasion and called it Callum Dunn’s Welcome to Ireland. Roy ‘Bo’ Callanan is an

alumnus and official piper of the Shenandoah University, Virginia, USA. In 2011 he

commissioned the tune The Shenandoah University. Another commission, this time

from the Dannevirke Pipe Band and called R. J. Mackenzie’s Farewell, commemorates

the late Roly Mackenzie’s 70 plus years as a member of the band, many of them as

Pipe Major. The last of the two-parters is called The Grey-eyed Nymph and Donald’s

comments ‘This was a trout fly I tied for the Manawatu River. At least that’s my story

and I am sticking to it.’ This tune was composed in 1955.

The next section of the book has 13 four parted 2/4 marches and many of them will

find favour as they have very musical melodic lines. The first, Mrs Jenny Mair, is named

after a well-known lady who has been active in the Manawatu Scottish Society,

Palmerston North, for many years. She also served as Chief of the Society. When

Margaret Houlihan married Alistair Dunn, Donald composed the march Margaret

Dunn of Glasgow.

During their visit to UK in 1998 Donald and Willie Anderson stayed for a week at the

Quirang Guest House in Portree, Isle of Skye, owned by Hugh and Christine (Toots)

MacFarlane. Hugh took them to many parts of Skye, including Boreraig, the ancestral

home of the MacCrimmons. The tune Hugh MacFarlane of Portree although named

for Hugh, was dedicated to both of them.

Robert Gladstone Bell was born and raised in the Hawkes Bay area and was a piper in

the City of Hastings Pipe Band. In 1980 he migrated to USA where he still lives; he

inherited an hereditary title and is now known as Sir Robert. Donald composed a tune

for him called Sir Robert Gladstone Bell.

On 21 April 2011 one of New Zealand’s greatest pipers, Lewis Turrell, died and as a

tribute to the great man Donald composed Pipe Major Lewis Turrell MBE. Margaret

Ellyn’s Wedding March is named for his only daughter and ‘…carries along with its

melody a heart full of good wishes for a lifetime full of happiness.’ Colin and Christine

MacKenzie of Stornoway are friends of the composer and he composed Colin

MacKenzie of Stornoway and a 6/8 march called Christine MacKenzie as a token of the

high regard in which he holds them.

Willie Anderson spent the last few months of his life in a hospice and Donald visited

him once or twice a week to play some tunes on the electronic bagpipe. On the

afternoon of 26 August 2006 Donald played him a few tunes and one was a new

composition that Willie had not heard before. Despite his frail condition Willie

opened his eyes, turned his head, smiled, closed his eyes and listened to the

remainder of the tunes. Ten minutes after Donald left the hospital Willie died; the

tune now has the title Willie Anderson’s Farewell – a fitting tribute to a lifelong

friendship.

At the age of 25 Stewart McKenzie became the youngest Pipe Major to win the Grade

1 New Zealand Championship and under his leadership the band has won that title on

seven occasions. The band has also been placed in the top ten on three occasions at

the World Championships and has won recognition as a strong competitor on the

world scene. The tune Pipe Major Stewart McKenzie is Donald’s way of acknowledging

his success.

The Right Honourable Sir Ian McKay had a distinguished career in law and was also a

fine piper. He held many high positions in the organisational side of piping and is a

noted authority on Ceol Mor. The march Sir Ian L McKay has a pleasant melody and is

of sufficient merit to be played in a 2/4 march competition.

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Donald has composed many tunes for members of his family and in 2001 Craig

Keenan’s Welcome celebrated Craig’s induction into the family when he became

engaged to Donald’s daughter Margaret. Allan Cameron is an expat Glaswegian but

has lived in New Zealand since the mid 1960s. During that time, he has played in the

percussion section of a number of bands, particularly Auckland and Districts Pipe

Band. Allan has been actively involved in Management Committee of the Royal New

Zealand Pipe Band Association and also for seven years was editor of this magazine.

Earlier this year Donald composed a new tune and it seemed very fitting to call it Allan

Cameron.

In 1998 Donald and Willie Anderson stayed in a B & B in Tobermory that was run by

Hughina and Blair Spence. When he composed the tune Hughina Spence of Tiree he

summed up the long-lasting friendship in these words ‘What a wonderful week it was

and what marvellous hosts they were. When the time came for leaving there were

tears all round. But a great friendship was formed and Hughina and I still keep in

touch by email. This tune is in memory of those unforgettable days and nights in

lovely Mull.’

Prior to the 1980s one of the major events at the New Zealand Pipe Band

Championships was the Quickstep. In this event the bands played 6/8 marches at 120

paces per minute and over a set course carried out a number of prescribed drill

movements. Donald has composed tunes in many time signatures, but the compound

time signatures (both marches and jigs) have become a favourite and reveal some of

his best melodies. In this book are eight marches and seven jigs in compound time.

The Duke of Hamilton’s Welcome to Greenville is the first of the 6/8 marches and was

commissioned to commemorate the Duke’s appointment as the 2012 Chief of the

Greenville, South Carolina Games.

Donald has taught many people throughout his long life and one of the latest was

Georgia Morrison when she was in her early teens. She was a first-class pupil and also

very good at judo and Donald ‘…was mindful about what he said at the teaching’. He

composed the tune Georgia Morrison for her.

Margaret Dunn is a tutor at the National piping Centre in Glasgow and one of her

pupils six years ago was a young Hungarian lad called Danny Rab. When this tune was

composed Margaret suggested it be named after him and it is now called Danny Rab’s

Farewell to Hungary. Ciaran Keenan was written to celebrate the birth of Donald’s

third grandchild Ciaran Donald Thomas Keenan, Craig and Margaret’s son. Donald

describes this as a ‘jaunty little 6/8’ and it is sure to catch the ear of many pipers.

Donald composed a tune in 2007 that brought back nostalgic memories of his 1950s

stay in Ireland. He called the tune The Banks of the Nore and added the comments ‘A

memory of long ago. A river in Kilkenny and a fine trout I caught, a girl leaning over

the gate to whom I gave it and her father who brought me a cool drink. A pleasant

morning's work.’

In 2010 the National Piping Centre and R G Hardie Ltd conducted a composing

competition promoted by the Greenville Scottish Games, South Caroline, USA.

Donald’s tune won the competition and was named Greenville’s Salute to the Earl of

Wessex in honour of HRH Prince Edward’s visit to the games.

Most composers find the strathspey the most difficult method of bringing good music

to the piping fraternity, but Donald has managed to achieve some success. Five such

tunes appear in this book, and they all have merit. Sutherland’s DancingShoes

commemorates William Sutherland of Thurso and Aberdeen who migrated to New

Zealand in 1922. He is acknowledged as one of the greatest Highland dancers of all

time.

The reason for a tune called The Happy Dram speaks for itself and is a ‘…simple Fling

tune for young dancers, juvenile pipers and fiddlers of any age.’ When Cuth Selby’s

Tunes by Valda and Ewen McCann was published in 2009 The Final Fling was the last

of Donald’s tunes in that book. He comments that it is ‘…rather a happy one – a tune

to dance to. That said, I believe it will keep an honest piper gainfully employed’.

Earlier this year a new strathspey was composed called MacLeod’s Wee Dram and it is

appropriate the composer should tell the story behind it:

‘I have a photo taken after the Argyllshire Gathering in 1998 of the

late Bill MacLeod of Rotorua offering the late Willie Anderson a ‘drop

of the craythur’ from a bottle he had in the boot of his car. But Bill

had forgotten to put in the glasses and the only thing available was

the little screw top from the bottle itself. The photo shows Willie

reaching for the wee dram and on his face a look of sheer disbelief!

People leaving the Grounds and taking in the scene would have

thought MacLeod to be a canny man indeed. Later on, we caught up

with Bill again in Stornoway up in Lewis and the drams that followed

while not 'muckle' were a huge improvement on that bad day at

Oban.’

When we reflect upon the titles of some of the older tunes we often wonder if the

stories associated with them are correct. This time we have the documentary

evidence:

The final strathspey is Pickett’s Post. The late Jim Picket was a member of the

Dannevirke and District Pipe Band and after a hard day’s work would often lean against

a post in the band room during practice.

There are only three reels in this book, but they are all quality tunes. Crazy Donald

was named when his daughter Margaret took a photo at his 80th birthday. He had a

‘….sly maniacal look’ and Donald says the tune ‘…is a self portrait’. Ewen McCann was

taught Highland dancing by Willie Sutherland. He remained loyal to his teacher’s style,

but this was not acceptable to the New Zealand Academy of Highland and National

Dancing, and he never won any dancing competitions after the Academy prevailed.

Nevertheless, he was a fine dancer and in 2012 Donald composed the tune Ewen – The

Dancer. Ewen was also taught to play the pipes by his father Bruce.

The reel The Muckle Dram is considered by many to be Donald’s greatest

composition. In 1969 when the late Pipe Major Donald MacLeod visited New

Zealand, he heard the tune played and remarked that it was the best reel composed

since John Morrison of Assynt House. The tune has been played in competitions by

many New Zealand bands and soloists but one of the biggest boosts it received was

when the Canadian band 78th Frasers played it at the World Championships. Then one

night in 2009 he awoke in the early hours and a new reel emerged from the depths.

He named it Noeleen Thompson’s Reel after a friend who is ‘…a kind and caring person

who has been a wonderful help to me in my senior years, especially since failing

eyesight ended my driving days. This collection would not be complete without my

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tribute to ‘Tommo’ – a very special friend’. The writer considers this to be one of the

best tunes he has composed.

Hornpipe and jig competitions have been played in solo competitions in New Zealand

for many decades and it is not surprising composers from this country have come up

with many of these tunes. Donald is no exception and has eight hornpipes and nine

jigs. Farewell to Mull tells of the magical time he spent on the Hebridean isle and the

sadness of leaving. The late Julie Appleton-Seymour was a well-known Highland

dancer and judge from Hawkes Bay and shortly before she died Julie’s Hornpipe was

composed. Another very good tune is Young Nick’s Hornpipe named for his grandson

Nicholas Craig Keenan when he was born in April 2006.

Many New Zealanders still revel in the glory of the time in 1995 when we won the

America’s Cup. The late Sir Peter Blake was the leader of an excellent team who saw

the famous NZL32 ‘Black Magic’ beat the best in the world. The occasion excited

Donald as well and hence another delightful hornpipe called Black Magic. When

Donald won the composing competition with the tune Greenville’s Salute to the Earl

of Wessex his prize was a Henderson blackwood chanter donated by R G Hardie & Co

Ltd. He states, ‘As the composer is well past his use-by date, the chanter was passed

onto a delighted Paul Turner…’ and then composed a tune and called it Paul Turner’s

Delight.

In the Pohangina Valley in Manawatu is the Waterford Café and Bar where Donald has

spent many hours in the company of the host Greg Drohan who hails from Co.

Waterford. He is renowned for the quality of Guinness he will draw for you and it will,

therefore, come as no surprise that Donald would compose a tune and call it The

Waterford Hornpipe. From his mother Donald inherits Irish ancestry and one can hear

that influence coming out in many of his tunes. One tune in this book is an Irish

Hornpipe called Canna Bhan and he insists the tempo of this tune should be down as

low as 60-70 bpm rather than the 90 for the Sailor’s Hornpipe.

Con Houlihan’s Jig is named for the father of Margaret Dunn. Con is from Cullen in Co.

Cork and was Pipe Major of the Cullen Pipe Band in 1976 when he was 21 years old.

The Dog and the Magpie is a musical jig that tells the story of son Ewan’s family pet (a

Kelpie pup) and a magpie. When the pup is taken for exercise battle ensues between

the pup and a magpie that lives in nearby trees. The maggie dive bombs the pup which

tries to grab it as it goes past. If the pup needs a spell it flops on the ground and the

magpie lands and waits about 10 metres away. After the pup has recovered it jumps

up and the circus starts all over again. Hopefully this merry tune

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Photo by Ewan Sargent

In 2006 Donald moved from his home in Woodville where he had lived for 51 years,

over the Ruahine Ranges, to Ashhurst. Four years later he marked the event by

composing Donald Came Over the Hill. When Willie Anderson was active in the band

he would rush home at lunch time, bolt his meal and then get in half an hour’s practice.

He would usually warm up by playing a few jigs but one day his mother was in the next

room and cried out, ‘Son, can’t you play something else. How can I iron your good

shirts carefully and you playing those damn jigs!’ - hence the inspiration for Willie’s

Good Shirt.

Another incident in Donald’s life that inspired a tune was a battle of wits he had with

a female blackbird. She had a ‘sharp eye for ripe a tomato’ Donald was growing and

complained ‘She usually won by not playing fair.’. She will be remembered forever

in the tune The Thieving Hen Blackbird.

Now for a piece of ‘sweet and sour’. The Girl from Cullen was composed for Margaret

Dunn before she was married. It is a grand tune but is very complex – particularly

when it came to setting it up for printing in this book. It will tax the memory of many

pipers. The last two jigs are named for Vivienne and Tony McGlynn. Vivienne is a New

Zealander who travelled to the Isle of Skye to take her violin playing to a higher level.

Her husband Tony is from Co. Donegal and he often accompanies Vivienne on the

guitar. Both tunes are simple melodic slip jigs, one named Vivienne’s Jig and the other

Tony McGlynn.

Donald’s Dream is a waltz composed away back in 1958 and the band used to play it

at Inglesides. It is a very musical little tune that many will enjoy playing. When Donald

purchased his computer and loaded a music writing programme, he had a few

difficulties. He would ring Valda McCann who, as Donald put it, ‘came to my rescue

time and again when the computer had me hanging on the ropes’. As a thank-you to

Valda he composed Valda’s Waltz.

Earlier in this article mention was made of the New Year’s Day discussion with Allan

Cameron. He suggested that maybe the book could be called One for the Road but

the decision was made to stay with the Muckle Dram Book 2. However, it does not

take much of a suggestion for Donald to come up with a tune and within a day or two

along came a cracking good 6/8 march called One for the Road. This has been

deliberately placed as the second last tune in the book.

As the publication date of The Muckle Dram Collection Book 2 approached Donald

realised that it was becoming more difficult to record the tunes – even on the

computer. He made the decision that once this book was published, he would not

compose any more tunes, but he still had one tune in him. It is a 3/4 retreat called

Farewell My Muse and one that bands will be playing in Street Marches in the not-too-

distant future. Donald’s comments are rather poignant:

We have had a long, long love affair of seventy years and now it is time for

me to lay aside the pen and for you to seek another scribe. I thank you for

the music you have given me that has been passed on for others to enjoy.

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It is our legacy to the world of piping. And now our work is finished -

farewell my Muse.

And with that we have reached the end of an era stretching to 70 years. Donald

composed his first tune H. M. S. Achilles in 1943 and 2013 marks the 70th anniversary

of that momentous occasion in New Zealand piping history. There are many notable

pipers who have composed some mighty tunes for the Highland bagpipe, but none

have had the creative longevity of Donald. We often wonder what other gems these

great composers of the past would have produced had they lived longer but we are in

no doubt that Donald Patrick Sargent, like a single malt whisky, has become better

with age. The Muckle Dram Collection Book 2 book is the proof.

Having researched and written about many New Zealand composers there is little

doubt that Donald Patrick Sargent has produced such a prolific array of high-quality

tunes that he can safely be accorded the accolade of being New Zealand’s best

composer of Highland bagpipe music. It is unlikely we will see any more new

compositions but if a miracle does happen the writer hopes he will be around to

compile The Muckle Dram Collection Book 3.

Special thanks are extended to Donald Patrick Sargent for his indulgence in allowing

the writer to publish his two collections of pipe tunes. Also, for the many dozens of

phone calls and the stories he has shared over the last 15 years. The first book took

as many years as the second one took months – it was a huge learning curve for both

of us. Allan Cameron is also thanked for his proof reading and advice during the

production of the two books and this article. Brom Breetveldt of Words Incorporate,

557 Blockhouse Bay Road, Blockhouse Bay for printing this book.

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