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Thae auld times are apt to get a kennin 'mixter-maxter in yin's held. "
Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 1887
chained_bear commented on the word mixter-maxter
Not sure this has any connection to piping, other than where I read it.
"The games catered for many tastes and the resulting mixter-maxter of fairground and circus, music hall and menagerie, athletics meet and military tattoo, made a less-than-ideal setting for playing or listening to high-quality bagpipe music."
—William Donaldson, Pipers: A Guide to the Players and Music of the Highland Bagpipe (Edinburgh: Birlinn, 2005), 25
July 31, 2008