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One of the earliest commercial recordings of the bagpipe – From 1899, Mrs. McCloud's Reel, played by James C. McAuliffe.
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Bagpipe recordings on wax cylinder are uncommon; Edison recorded just over a dozen of them – each were performed by piper James C. McAuliffe.
During the early years of Edison's National Phonograph Company,
soloists often announced their own
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This selection was typically listed in catalogs as "Miss McCloud's Reel", but there is no mistaking, it is "Mrs." here.
Not a Scottish bagpipe, here McAuliffe is playing the more difficult Irish bagpipe,
the uilleann (pronounced
See the March 2013 Cylinder of the Month to hear another bagpipe recording by
To learn more about McAuliffe, and to see a photograph of him & his uilleann bagpipe, click here.
To hear other examples of wax cylinders, see the
