Pipe tunes by well known Benbecula bagpiper, Calum Campbell, have been published in new book.
Son Niall discovered compositions after tragic loss of his father and four other family members in the violent storm of January 2005.
Calum Campbell perished along with his daughter and son-
Calum, who was 67, was well known as a piper and piping instructor and had also composed some tunes.
His son Niall found the tunes in the family home and they have been published by Acair, working with various members of Calum’s family and staff from The National Piping Centre in Glasgow.
In his introduction to the book, Niall said he would find pipe tunes in “boxes and folders, drawers and cupboards.”
He added: “Some of them I was aware of, others I had never heard before.”
Roddy MacLeod, principal of The National Piping Centre, hailed it as a “very welcome addition to the published repertoire of pipe music” and said that he had been unaware of just how much music Calum had written.
New collection of bagpipe music published
14 October 2015