“…I had the good fortune to meet a direct descendent of the Borreraig MacCrimmons,
… he told me that the clarsach influenced the pipe pointing out how the [pipe] music of the late 16th or 17th century stood above all others [later] in merit.
He went so far as to say that piobaireachd renderings on the clarsach were common at one time…”
From The Oban Times, 26 August, 1933, via pmjohngrant.com