S10 E 10 Lowland and Border Pipers' Society Tune of the Month Oyster Wife's Rant

Tunes:

David Young: The Drunken Wives in Pearson's Closs,

Robert Bremner: Oyater Wives Rant, Lady Doll Sinclair's Reel,

James Aird: The Oyster Wive's Rant, Mullindough or the Black Laddie,

Angus Cumming: Haugh's of Cromdale,

John Peacock: Oyster Wifes Rant

Donald MacDonald: A Mulinn Dubh, The Whimsical, Jingling Johnie, The Miller's Fair Daughter, Morag is Domhnull (or Marion & Donald), The Jolly Old Gardner,

John Rook: The Black Laddie,

Thomas Glen: Mulinn Dubh (The Black Mill),

William Gunn: Am Muilen Dubh (The black Mill)

William Ross: The Black Mill

LBPS Blue Book: The Oyster Wife's Rant,

Jeremy Kingsbury: Oyster Wife's Rant,

Be sure to Post your performance to your own instagram account and tag it #LBPS or #LBPSTOTM

or post your rendition straight to the Lowland and Border Pipers' Group (Formerly LBPS Forum)

https://www.facebook.com/share/g/1FZMPP8vUm/

You should also explore the growing resources at the LBPS Tune of the Month Website:

https://lbps.net/j3site/index.php/repertoire/tune-of-the-month/1297-may-2026-oyster-wifes-rant

SOURCES

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1740: The Drunken Wives in Pearson’s Closs from David Young’s A Collection of the Newest Country Dances Perform’d in Scotland at Edinburgh by Da. Young WM

Image Courtesy Pete Stewart

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1760s: The Oyster Wive’s Rant From Robert Bremner’s A Collection of Scots Reels or Contry Dances

https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105003175

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1780: The Oyster Wive’s rant from James Aird’s A selection of Scotch, English, Irish, and foreign airs : adapted to the fife, violin or German-flute

https://archive.org/details/selectionofscotc00ingl/page/2/mode/2up

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1800(ish): Oyster Wifes Rant from John Peacock’s A Favourite Collection of Tunes with Variations Adapted for the Northumberland Small Pipes, Violin or Flute

http://www.farnearchive.com/farneimages/jpgs/K0101300.jpg

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1828: A Mulinn Dubh from Donald MacDonald’s A Collection of Quicksteps, Strathspeys, Reels & Jigs Arranged for the Highland Bagpipe https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105682759

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1840: The Black Laddie from John Rook’s Manuscript Multum in parvo or a Collection of old English, Scotch, Irish & Welsh Tunes.

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/archive/rja14/musicfiles/manuscripts/rook/rook_pages/059.htm

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1843: Mulinn Dubh From A New and Complete Tutor for the Great Highland Bagpipe by Thomas Glen

https://ceolsean.net/content/TGlen/TGlen_TOC.html

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1848: An Muilen Dubh (The black Mill) from William Gunn’s The Caledonian Repository of Music adaptes for the Bagpipes

https://ceolsean.net/content/Gunn/Gunn_TOC.html

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1869: The Black Mill From Ross’s Collection of Pipe Music by William Ross https://ceolsean.net/content/WRoss/WRoss_TOC.html

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Black Mill Set from Cold and Raw:

https://jeremykingsbury.bandcamp.com/album/cold-and-raw

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1828: The Whimsical (Fall of Foyers) from Donald MacDonald’s Collection of Quicksteps, Strathspeys, reels and Jigs

https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105682660

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1828: Jingling Johnie (Kate Dalrymple) from Donald MacDonald’s Collection of Quicksteps, Strathspeys, reels and Jigs

https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105682737

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1828: The Miller’s Fair Daughter from Donald MacDonald’s Collection of Quicksteps, Strathspeys, reels and Jigs

https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105682605

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1828: Morag is Domhnull (or Marion & Donald) from Donald MacDonald’s Collection of Quicksteps, Strathspeys, Reels and Jigs

https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105682682

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1828: The Jolly old Gardener from Donald MacDonald’s Collection of Quicksteps, Strathspeys, reels and Jigs

https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105682627

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The Oyster Wife’s Rant from Lowland and Border Pipers’ Society The Blue Book; Committee Sessions Repertoire

https://j3s