| MacRae |
| Duncan MacRae was not a piper however he used his considerable skills and imagination to create an enduring bagpipe. He first appears as a bagpipe maker in the Glasgow business directory in 1909. He is best known for inventing hempless tuning slides, pictured at the very bottom below. He also invented the first non-leather blowpipe valve, also pictured below opposite the stocks. |
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