'Pastoral' bagpipes (pipes), circa 1780. They were made by Hugh Robertson of Edinburgh (cf maker's mark stamped on chanter) The note that came with them said "Parts of a set of bagpipes, owned by late John MacCallum of Tain. They were presented to him by Lord Seaforth "of the famous Royal Seaforth Highlanders". These pipes may have come to the Regiment as early as 1911 although there are no records of this donation. Capt. Rob MacDonald did some research on these pipes in 2010. His notes are in the accession file. Colin Stevens did some repairs with epoxy to the broken parts. Some parts were missing. Had been double numbered as 1998.119.028. From the website of Colin Stevens: "Parlour Pipes which appear to have originated with the Lord Seaforth in the 1700s after whom the Regiment is named. The Pipe Major handed these to me and I was able to do some basic restoration and trace the family, thus being in the days before the Internet! I made a replica tartan bag cover (no actual bag) after doing research." 'Pastoral' bagpipe, circa 1780. made by Hugh Robertson of Edinburgh (cf maker's mark stamped on chanter) see research done by Capt. MacDonald 2010 in file.The note that came with them said "Parts of a set of bagpipes, owned by late John MacCallum of Tain, Ross Shire, Scotland Made expressly for - and presented to him more than a century ago - by the late Lord Seaforth of the famous "Royal (sic) Seaforth Highlanders - Mrs. John MacGowan Formerly Jane C. MacCallum, Grand-daughter of late Peter MacCallum Esq. of St. Peter's Bay, Prince Edward Island." The last name was very unusual and Curator Colin Stevens used the phonebook and found three people of that last name MacGowan in the Vancouver phonebook. John MacGowan of 827 York St., New Westminster 522-0045 said Jesse (Jane) died 1880; Peter MacCallum married Sue Castles, he moved to PEI in 1789 Attorney General Nov 1798 Died 1810. John MacGowan died 1868. John MacGowan said in effect "That name sounds familiar, just a minute I just received a family tree. He looked and found the man listed as living at St. Peter's Bay saying he lived there, and that the lady who had written the note died in 1880! As she wrote that the pipes were over 100 years old, that dates them back to the 1770s-1780s and likely from the Lord Seaforth who raised the Seaforth Highlanders. Hugh Robertson (1730–1822) was a Scottish wood and ivory turner and a master crafter of woodwind instruments such as Pastoral Pipes, Union pipes, and Great Highland Bagpipes. Robertson crafted instruments were popular especially with the gentleman set and crafted the Edinburgh Great Highland prize pipe of 1802 as well as prize pipes for the Highland Society of London between the 1780s -1820s. The Highland Society of London regularly set up piping competitions and commissioned pipes as prizes from Robertson that were used in annual pageants of Highland culture at the Theatre Royal in Edinburgh. Recognized for his skill and development of the pastoral and union pipes, Roberson was presented a set of union pipes from the Duchess of Northumberland belonging to the famous and somewhat infamous Newcastle upon Tyne piper Jamie Allen. The pipes were shattered and in a small cardboard box with the old note when the Pipe-Major pulled them out from under the Bar in the Band Room in 1974 and handed them to the Curator. The Curator made a replica display bag out of MacKenzie tartan based upon research of this type of pipes.