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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/historic-bagpipe-chanter-returns.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="The oldest Highland bagpipe chanter has returned to Scotland after more than 200 years in Canada" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/min-historic-bagpipe-chanter-returns.jpg" alt="The oldest Highland bagpipe chanter has returned to Scotland after more than 200 years in Canada"/></a></p>
<p>The oldest Highland bagpipe chanter has returned to Scotland after more than 200 years in Canada.</p>
<p>It belonged to 17th century composer Iain Dall MacKay, whose grandson emigrated to Nova Scotia with it in 1805.</p>
<p>There it was handed down through the family for eight generations.</p>
<p>The MacKay Sinclair family recently decided to return it to Scotland in respect of its significance to musical history, and have donated it to National Museums Scotland.</p>
<p>The chanter, the bagpipe&#8217;s melody pipe, is on show at the National Piping Centre in Glasgow, where a part of the museum&#8217;s piping collection is displayed.</p>
<p>Michael Sinclair, who has donated the chanter, said: &#8220;There&#8217;s great scholarship in piping associated with the museum and we felt that it would be a good location for the chanter to be seen and appreciated by young pipers.</p>
<p>&#8220;We hope that its story will inspire them in their piping schooling.&#8221;</p>
<p>Experts said that the chanter is one of the world&#8217;s oldest dateable relics of the Highland bagpipe tradition and is key to the understanding of that history.</p>
<p>Though it is considered the &#8220;golden age&#8221; of Gaelic piping, few instruments survive from the 17th century, so the chanter will become the most historically important item in the collection.</p>
<p>Iain Dall MacKay (1656-1754) was born at Talladale, Loch Maree and was known as &#8220;The Blind Piper of Gairloch&#8221;.</p>
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