The following year he returned to Dumfries where he took a lease on a farm. He had been searching for a chanter like this for many years and wrote to a friend that it ‘is exactly as shepherds were wont to use in the country’. He purchased this chanter made from sheep's bone in the Braes of Atholl in Perthshire.
Burns became the driving force behind Johnsons' Scots Musical Museum (1787-1803), a six-volume collection of Scottish music and verse to which Burns contributed around 200 songs.Ībove: Burns had a profound interest in traditional Scottish folk music. In 1787 he met James Johnson, who shared his passion for traditional music. The book was immediately successful, and Burns set off for Edinburgh, where he found himself lionised by society.Ībove: Engraving, mounted on card, entitled 'The inauguration of Robert Burns as Poet Laureate of the Lodge Canongate Kilwinning Edinburgh 1787', by Charles Ewart from the painting by Stewart Watson.
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