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Set Tunes Series 2026: “The Pretty Dirk”

Dr. Donaldson says about the tune, one of the shortest pieces in the repertory: The earliest report on the circumstances of its composition comes from James Logan in the notes for Angus MacKay’s published volume of 1838, which emphasize in Logan’s usual style a culture of chiefly munificence and quasi-feudal...
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At Helensburgh Gordon McCready wins the aggregate and Callum Carn captures another Piobaireachd

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