Highland Catredral

Michael Korb has always had a preference for bagpipe music. When he came to Berlin in 1975 after finishing school, he immediately took lessons on the unusual instrument with the "Pipe Major" of a Scottish battalion. When the Scots left, Michael Korb also left... to Edinburgh, where he took daily lessons from the 80-year-old master Paddy Atkinson. During the day in his summerhouse and in the evening (because of the neighbours) in the forest. He was drawn there again and again for several years until he mastered the instrument accordingly.

After the release of a record with bagpipe music in disco style in 1979 and the happy meeting with the experienced and very successful arranger, producer and composer Uli Roever (who worked for Udo Jürgens and Peter Maffay among others), the result was the jointly developed melody "Highland Cathedral". Both makers were convinced of their chances of success - not so the publishers. Despite their rejection at the time, the melody has sought its way into people's hearts - often in an unusual way - since 1982.