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Author: Ronald Smith

Retired; amateur piper; studied with Dr. Roderick Ross, Malcolm MacPherson, Hugh MacRae, Donald MacMillan, James MacGregor, Andrew MacNeill, and Robert Nicol.
Posted on May 18, 2016May 16, 2016

MacLeod’s Dog Short Tail

The tune ‘Macleod’s Dog Short Tail’, recorded in the Campbell Canntaireachd, is also called ‘An Ann a Mhire Tha Sibh’, or ‘Salute on the Birth(more…)

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by Ronald Smith0 comment
Posted on April 5, 2015January 29, 2018

A Fragment of Traditional Canntaireachd

The pibroch ‘The Piper’s Warning to his Master’, and especially Donald MacDonald’s version ‘MacDonald’s Warning’, is echoed in the traditional song ‘Cholla mo Ruin’, of(more…)

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