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1st Edition Arrives

An excited phone call from my friend Iain MacHarg at 10:30pm... "I know it's late, but guess what I have? Donald MacDonald 1828, just arrived" I was asleep, and didn't answer the phone. We've been playing phone tag for two days... This is an exciting opportunity.  The only first edition I've been able to find of this book that I could possibly access is in the library in Edinburgh... Now it's in Iain's very complete library of published bagpipe music.  The edition I've been using for our project is a sixth edition. I'm interested to see if there is a differing list of tunes, and the evolution of the embellishments over this period.  This could change drastically the content of our project