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Falling down the archive.org rabbit hole 5/2?: Highland bagpipe historical books

In addition to finding Highland bagpipe and Uilleann pipe music, and highland bagpipe scores and tutorials, I found a couple interesting highland bagpipe history books. There are of course more at archive.org, but I've only linked to those that are in the public domain and accessible to all: The Highland bagpipe; its history, literature, and music, with some account of the traditions, superstitions, and anecdotes relating to the instrument and its tunes 1901 - William Laird Manson Some reminiscences and the bagpipe 1907 - Alexander Duncan Fraser and Alexander Duncan Fraser The story of the bagpipe. [With illustrations, a bibliography, and a reprint of O'Farrell's Treatise on the Irish bagpipes, published in 1801]  1911 - William Henry Grattan Flood The pipes of war : a record of the achievements of pipers of Scottish and overseas regi...
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Falling down the archive.org rabbit hole 4/2?: Uilleann pipe tunes

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In addition to finding highland bagpipe music (described previously here and here ), I was also to discovered a large (128 tracks) collection of Uilleann pipe tunes. They range in dates from 1917 to 1955. All from the 78RPM collection.  The M3U playlist can be found here . Note it is a remote URL playlist, where the tracks are stored at archive.org and streamed over the Internet to your device.   1955 The First House in Connaught, Drowsie Maggie - Martin Feeney Trio The First House in Connaught, Drowsie Maggie Your browser does not support the audio element. 1955 The Lark in the Morning, The Rose in the Heather - Martin Feeney Trio The Lark in the Morning, The Rose in the Heather Your browser does not support the audio element. 1955 The Scholar, The Salamanca, Tom Steele - Tommy Reck The Scholar, The Salamanca, Tom ...
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