History: Rare Pictures of John Ban MacKenzie
We are very grateful to reader Francis Chamberlain for sending us these pictures of the great piper John Ban MacKenzie 1796 -1864. MacKenzie was piper to the Marquis of Breadalbane from 1843, and to the Highland Society of Scotland. He was famous for being able to make every component part of the bagpipe and playing the resultant instrument as ‘a master of his creation’. Above is a picture of how…
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