Calum Piobair (Malcolm the Piper), 1833-1898, was the founder of the Macpherson school of the piobaireachd, the ceol mór or classical music of the pipes. Although Malcolm Macpherson and four of his famous piping sons were pipers to the last lairds of Clunie, he belonged to the 'Bruce' Macphersons of Trotternish on the Isle of Skye, his father, Angus piobair cam Macpherson having brought him to Clunie when the native line of local pipers died out. As such, his achievement was to transmit to a modern 'piping world' the traditions of the ancient college of pipers from that island, usually associated with the MacCrimmons of Boreraig and the MacArthurs of Staffin. Most pipers around the world today owe something of their style to his teaching.

From The Posterity of the Three Brethren
by Alan G. Macpherson (Fourth Edition)