A rising Highland accordion player’s hit online video has been pulled following a copyright row.
Caithness musician Brandon McPhee, 18, has apologised to fans after racking up more than 70,000 views in a matter of days.
He plans to put up the same three reels on his social media site today but with different footage from his official DVD.
A clip of Brandon playing Jean’s Reel, High Level Hornpipe and President Garfield was unknowingly put on his page by a fan.
It was footage showed him a couple of years ago while launching a DVD in Wick.
It had been posted at the time by another fan but removed following objections from Brandon’s record company.
However, while it was up it was copied by another follower who has re-posted the film resulting in 10,000 views per day.
Robert Cameron of Pan Records revealed that the original owner of the footage had complained and the clip was removed on Saturday.
He said: “We had no problem when the clip was posted a few days ago. It was only at the time of the DVD launch we had concerns. It was getting 8,000 to 10,000 hits a day which was phenomenal.
“But we are putting our own clip of the reels up and hope it proves as popular. It would be great to get over 100,000 views in total.”
Brandon, of Castletown, says on his site: “I would like to thank each and every one of you for liking, viewing and commenting on the recent video of mine that was going around – I was over the moon.
“This clip was on before, and was illegally recorded and posted up without permission.”
Brandon has already sold thousands of records, gets fan mail from around the world and has won every major accordion competition in Scotland.
He recorded his first album at the age of 11, just six months after taking up the instrument.
He learned at his grandfather Donald’s knee.
“I don’t remember too much about it but my grandad said I watched his fingers and how he worked the accordion,” Brandon said.
“My uncle Daniel gave me my first lessons and I really learnt from him. I just love playing Scottish traditional music. Pop music is great but it’s not on my playlist.”