A descendant of the McLeod family’s piper, Angus McKay, wrote of Elizabeth’s musical aptitude and her fondness for the piper in the following terms:MacKay, A., Collection of Ancient Piobaireachd or Highland Bagpipe Music, 1838, full text available at Alt Pibroch Club, http://www.altpibroch.com/kb/ Her musical taste was remarkably good, and she was so fond of Pìobaireachd [bagpipes], that she acquired many of the longest pieces from the performance of the family Piper, and was accustomed to play them on the piano with much effect…. She [never] forgot MacKay, the Piper of Raasay, but had an elegant stand of Pipes, of peculiar native workmanship, prepared, which she presented to him.
