As any instructor he wanted to leave his mark in the collections of learning by creating this melody in a very technical skill hence its name.
Finally, at a Highland Games somewhere on earth, Pinkman listening to yet another Pipe Band playing "Itchy" would have said "I get fed up listening to that tune. I sometimes wish I’d never composed it".

It was arranged by PM Robert Mathieson, who included it in his book of tunes. First performed as a march and then as a reel, this song seems to have been definitively catalogued as a hornpipe.