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of those Jamiesons. I found during my re? search that a lot of the pipers, their families sort of intermingled or intermar ried. One of the Jamiesons married a Mac- Intyre woman in Glace Bay. And the big saying was, that was the only way they'd let him into the band, if he mar? ried a Maclntyre woman. I remember Angus (Maclntyre) telling me, too, that--I think it was One- Eyed Dan's sister that--I think it was Charlie Jamieson that married her. Which is sort of funny, because those Ja? miesons, their father was Neil Jamieson, and his mother would have been a Maclntyre from St. Rose over in Inverness County. So it's amazing how that Maclntyre--it's a name that's been associated with piping Barry Shears: There's a story that Danny Maclntyre gave me, about how -those Maclntyres got their piping from the French Road. And that they sent Donald to get a bottle. And he was walking by a sithean, or a fairy dell. And the fairies-he could hear pipe music from inside. 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N.S. BOK ISO 755-4440 since, well, time immemorial, really. (You're talking about the pipers your fa- ther might have heard, that might have en? couraged him to have an interest. But he himself didn't play.) No, he didn't. But where we grew up, in back of our house in Glace Bay is where the two Jamieson brothers had their houses. But there's a brook there, as well, and when the bank started to break away and fall into the brook, they moved their houses farther down, on the same street, on Park Street. There were MacNeils that lived at the bot? tom of the lane, that were Gaelic speak? ers. I was very close to that family. Isa? bel MacNeil, she was like another mother to me. She used to talk about One-Eyed Dan Maclntyre, and there was another Macln? tyre, Mickey the Dancer. And they lived between where we lived in Glace Bay, and Caledonia. And she remembers him playing. He won a couple of awards up at Antigon? ish, and I guess he rarely took them off his chest. 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