THE DOODLESACK.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 363, 23 April 1903, Page 3

THE DOODLESACK.

Stta B»iir mmwme»« hkm utvv&am* ftpanafl i» Spit* of l«« Bfr»-

&' writer in «fc* Athenaeum aeeerts that bagpipe music has "suffered greatly through the efforts of wellmeaning but mistaken people to lift it out of its proper place and graft it on to city life and its inside entertainment*." To compare it» music with "classical productions" i* "like Comparing 'tattes and h«rring with wine jellies.*' A Chicago jury once decided that tL» bagpipe was uot a musical instrument at all. But why quarrel with a definition? Enough that it has lived through some bad, crises. When that phase of life in which it was born and brought up passed away, it declined to be moved into the background. In short, it had the will fto live without the adventitious aids of cranks and of congresses), because it answers a primitive want. Indeed, nothing could be more ironic than the fact that the military organization which did much to crush out everything that had made it a. power should have been so completely conquered by it that there are now two-and-twenty pipe bands in the British army. The ■bagpipe has been annexed by some of the native Indian regiments, notably those in the Punjab, and it continues to spread there as a great military instrument.