John Wilson (41)

John Wilson (1906-1979). Pipes, composer. Pipe Major John Wilson was born in Edinburgh, Scotland and received his first Bagpipe lessons in Edinburgh Castle in 1915 from Pipe Major Robert Thomson, Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders. He later received tuition from A.R. MacLeod. In 1917, Roddie Campbell came to Edinburgh and John became one of his star pupils and kept receiving lessons from this great player, composer and teacher for twenty years.