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My thanks go out to Dr. William Donaldson and to Steve Scaife of Ceol Sean Bagpipe Music Books on CD for their help in securing and preparing these manuscripts. Thanks to the Piobaireachd Society for cross-linking with us to allow easier access to all of the manuscripts.
The Manuscripts Each of the next four documents describes the manuscript named and provides links to the page groupings and the manuscript index. Note that page groupings are generally large and may require up to a minute or more of broadband or high-speed download time.
Dr. William Donaldson's Index to Manuscripts This index describes the locations of tunes in all unpublished piobaireachd manuscripts. It contains links to the four manuscripts posted on this site. This is the primary index to use to find specific tunes in these four manuscripts.
Dr. Donaldson's General Published Piobaireachd Index This index describes the locations of tunes in all published piobaireachd texts, but it does not link to any of the manuscripts. Thanks to Dr. Donaldson for publishing it here.
The Piobaireachd Society Manuscripts The Piobaireachd Society owns the following manuscripts and makes them available as pdf documents on their website. Click on any manuscript name below to go to the Piobaireachd Society's manuscripts page:
