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2008-2024
This tune can be ranked among the Slow Marches and could be therefore better acknowledged as Lord Lovat's March.
The name Lament, quite common to be used here, is in fact erroneous: the real Lament version corresponds to an air of piobaireachd, Cumha Mhic Shimidh (Lament for MacShimi) existing in several versions and composed in the 18th century by the piper of the Fraser of Lovat clan.
One can find it also under the name of Lament For The Highland Clearances in memory of the era after the last Jacobite rebellion.
By the way, we all know the famous piper of the 17th Lord Lovat (Shimi Fraser) during WWII : Bill Millin (see one of the tune he played at Normandy landing).
One can also find the score in the Scots Guards vol. 2 (p.20; see below) but I've chosen to highlight another way of playing it that you can find on Jim McGillivray site.
I've also made a slight correction on the Scots Guards score, bar 6, replacing the G strike by an optional A strike.
Lord Lovat's Lament
- score written by Eric Maclewis with CelticPipes
MARCH