MacDonald, Donald
(1766/7–1840)
- Roderick D. Cannon
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MacDonald, Donald (1766/7–1840), bagpipe maker and music publisher, was born at Glenhinisdale, Skye. He was a piper in the 2nd battalion Caithness fencible regiment from 1795 to about 1802, and pipe major in the Argyllshire militia from about 1811 to 1817. By 1806 he was a bagpipe maker in ...