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5 unusual facts about Richard Mowat


Archie Dagg

In another tape, he talked in detail about pipemaking, and in a third he recalled Tom Clough, Richard Mowat, G.G. Armstrong and 'Kielder Jock' Davison.

Richard Mowat

In this period it awarded two pipers its Gold Medal; one was Mowat, and the other was Henry Clough.

Richard Mowat or Mowatt (1865-1936) was a renowned and award-winning player of the Northumbrian smallpipes.

Mowat, like Tom Clough, had studied the pipes with Thomas Todd, but he had a very different style from the Cloughs' close-fingered playing.

Tom Clough

At the end of his life, 'Young Tom' recalled piping sessions at the 'Willow Tree' in Newsham, with his father Tom, grandfather Henry Clough, and Richard Mowat all playing - Henry's and Richard Mowat's playing would get more furious and inaccurate as the evening progressed; Tom was teetotal.



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