Books Data Music and other Deadly Sins

After discovering the pipe music LPs and 78s , I decided to poke around for any additional highland bagpipe content at archive.org . I was able to find a couple of quite old scores and tutorials: The tutor for the highland bagpipe; with a selection of marches, quicksteps, strathspeys, reels and jigs amounting to one hundred tunesby William McKay in 1841 ; 1843 corrected and improved by Angus McKay 1878 - Angus McKay (wikipedia). A collection of pibaireachd 1880 -  John MacCrimmon (wikipedia). Canntaireachd : articulate music, dedicated to the Islay Association 1880 -  J.F. Campbell (wikipedia). Glen's collection for the great highland bagpipe ca.1880 -  John Glen & Robert Glen . 2022 hardcover reprint at Amazon Hendersons Bagpipe Tutor Year? -   Peter Henderson ...

The archive.org's 78rpm collection is truly vast: over 310,000 audio recordings at the time of writing! In it you can a diversity of wonderful audio recordings. Here is where I discovered a trove of older highland bagpipe tunes. And a handful more of highland bagpipe audio from other collections after searching around, resulting in 105 tunes! The sound quality as well as recording volume (especially the pre-1930 ones) of these audio recordings is often not great, so you may want to not want all of these recordings in a playlist. However, it really an amazing historical snapshot of piping.  You may notice that there are several of tunes where there are multiple digitized versions, such as: 1949 KING GEORGE V'S ARMY (March) - MONYMUSK (Strathspey) - JENNY DANG THE WEAVER (Reel) - THE SHORES OR ARGYLL (Retreat) - PIPES AND DRUMS, SCOTS GUARDS (Training Battn.) which has 3 versions: Copy 1 Copy 2 Copy...