This tune is
from the 1848 collection, The Caledonian Repository
of Music Adopted for the Bagpipes by William Gunn.
William Gunn was
born in Kildonan. He competed in the Highland Society's
piping competitions and was 5th in Edinburgh in 1824
having moved to Glasgow the preceding year. He became a
bagpipe maker around 1834. He died February14, 1867.
Gunn was
credited with being the first to make a smallpipe
chanter that tuned to the highland bagpipes scale and
used the same fingering. He was a prolific composer and
was published in his own book as well as William Ross’.
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