What are the motto, badge, lands, and pipe music of Clan Sinclair?
• Motto: Commit Thy Work to God • Badge: The plant badge is Whin, according to ScotClans. • Badge: A cock, proper armed and beaked or. • Shield: an engrailed cross, black on white. • Banner: an engrailed cross, black on white • Lands: Midlothian, Orkney and Caithness, plus Argyll. • Gaelic name: Singlear • Gaelic name (Argyll): Mac ca Ceardadh • Pipe Music: Spaidsearachd Mhic nan Cearda (The Sinclair’s March) • Where can I get the Sinclair March? It is in a book named as one volume of a two-volume set of the Black Watch Pipe Band’s Music, or something like that. My guess is that most Grade I through III have copies of this for their usual practice. Pipe teachers also would be a likely source for the tune. President Emeritus David Bouschor says it’s a “quick march” but he doesn’t say he has any CD’s or tapes of the tune. If anyone finds this in commercial stocks, I would appreciate knowing how to obtain it. Ray Lower, coqnord@goldstate.net. The Sinclair March or Red Ribbon is a piobreac
