Annotation:Millbank Cottage

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MILLBANK COTTAGE. Scottish, March (2/4 time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCCDD (Brody): AABB'CCDD' (Martin). "Millbank Cottage" is the best known composition of Pipe Major William Dumbreck (1866-1935) from Linlithgow (although often listed as "traditional"). Dumbreck, according to his obituary, was "pipe-major of the 1st Black Watch, to which, when he was appointed, was the youngest pipe-major in the British Army." The melody was composed in 1887, and was dedicated to his sister who had moved into a newly constructed house, 'Millbank Cottage', in the town of Uphall, Midlothian.

The march is favored at pipe competitions, and was played at Dumbreck's funeral.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Brody (Fiddler's Fakebook), 1983; p. 188. Martin (Ceol na Fidhle), vol. 2, 1988; p. 6.

Recorded sources: Olympic 6151, The Angus Strathspey and Reel Society- "Scottish Traditonal Fiddle Music" (1978). Philo 1042, Boys of the Lough- "Piper's Broken Finger" (1976).