This particular post is just to remind me to finish this thought process. While digging around in search of a suitable piobaireach for the 2021 season, I came across the Lament for Ronald MacDonald of Morar. In trying to decide on a particular version, I fell down quite the rabbit hole, which prompted a question sent to Donald Lindsay regarding figuring out which version I actually had in my hand. What is it's pedigree and providence, and how do I present this to a judge? More to come...
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