Highlander’s Farewell

I’ve been working on this arrangement for some time and have been wanting to record it, implementing “bagpipe” tuning, in this case AAA with the bass string dropped an octave below the middle A and the melody string dropped to G, a step below the middle. Played on my first teardrop dulcimer, of walnut, and my second dulcimer.

Tuning: AAg

Emmett Lundy’s fiddling:    • Emmett Lundy - Highlander's Farewell  

Having dug into my family lineage more in the last couple years, I do have some Scottish roots. My 9th-great grandfather, James Edward Bane (born in Alyth, Perth and Kinross, 1650-1731), along with his son, Alexander (my 8th, born in Inverness, Highland, 1688-1747), immigrated to Chester County, PA sometime around 1700. Alexander’s grandson, Jesse, and his son, George, moved from Chester to Hampshire County, Va, now WV, in the early 1800s, and a few generations later, my great, great-grandfather, William Heiskell Bane (1870-1945), my maternal grandmother’s grandfather on her mother’s side, was born in Burlington, Mineral County.