Canntaireachd is a method of orally describing the various movements in piobaireachd music. It probably dates back to before 1500 A.D., and has existed in many different “dialects”. The predominant dialect of today is the Nether Lorn canntaireachd, as used in the Piobaireachd Society books. This is what will be described below, taken more or less verbatim from their preface.

The example of canntaireachd below also contains a sample of the MacCrimmon canntaireachd. More about this will be added to these pages at some point.

I'm back from a trip to Oban and Glasgow together with Mats, Marie, and Anders Prytz. We had a great time listening, among other things, to the senior piobaireachd and big MSR. Winners of these events were Angus MacColl and Gordon Walker (third year running) respectively. More results from Oban here.

Images in the gallery.