>In a number of cases the pipes are being played 'backwards'; right hand
>on top and bag under right arm; mostly these are engravings and I
>suppose might have been reversed somehow, but some are paintings (which
>could be the result of a reversed photo); or of course that could be how
>they were actually played.
>Any comments on this?
It used to be very common. I've come across a comment from a 19th
century pipe major that it was always a good idea to have a few left-
handed pipers on the team so that, for special occasions, you could
set up columns of two with neat mirror-image symmetry.
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