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Dr. William “Willie” Donaldson is known by name to pipes|drums readers for his articles, reviews and, perhaps most of all, the Set Tunes Series of more than 175 piobaireachds and each of their existing manuscripts he has painstakingly assembled and published exclusively here since 2001. Now he has launched...
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