From thesession.org: "Jack Chisholm, as he was universally known, was the son of P/M Bill Chisholm of Inverness and grew up in a piping family. He served in North Africa during the war and afterward was in the Edinburgh City Police Pipe Band under Donald Shaw Ramsay. But a personality clash caused him to emigrate to Washington D.C. around 1956/7 where he had been offered the Pipe major’s position in the local Pipe Band. After leaving this position, he went west - but never recovered from subsequently being mugged and left locked in the boot of his car for two days.