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"Stool of Repentance": William Dixon's setting on the Lowland pipes

The William Dixon manuscript was written down between 1733 and 1738, probably in Northumberland, and was rediscovered in the 1990's and subsequently published by Matt Seattle. Here is a link to the Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William... The stool of repentance, sometimes called the cutty stool, was a device used in the Presbyterian Church in Scotland to humiliate church members who had broken the strictures, usually through fornication or adultery. Victims were sometimes driven to infanticide and suicide. Robert Burns, the Bard of Scotland, was punished in this way for his libidinous liaison with a young servant girl, Elizabeth Paton, the mother of his first child. The tune is often heard today as a jig, and sometimes Dixon's setting of the tune is played with a jig rhythm. I think it fits more of a bourrée type rhythm better, so that's what I attempted here. The pipes were made by Ray Sloan, a magnificent pipe maker.