Aird's Rondo, McFarlane's Strathspey (GHB)

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Both of these tunes come from the same page in “Aird's 6th and Last Volume of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs…" It was likely published around 1801. Aird had already been dead for some time, sometimes these later collections are referred to as Mcfadyen’s collections, though the copy in the National Library of Scotland includes a title page which still has Aird in the title.
I’m quite pleased with the pinched high B in Aird’s Rondo. Before I had a set of Border Pipes to borrow I had started to daydream about how to get the couple of pinched notes out of my Highland pipes, but it never moved beyond the planning stages until I heard saw Bob Cameron, a New England Bagpiper, talking about doing it on his pipes. Bob said he was inspired by Gordon Mooney and Matt Seattle playing Pinched notes on Border Pipes. There are references to Highland Pipers pinching notes in the eighteenth century and supposedly a fingering chart exists in Sutherland’s Manuscript who played Pastoral, Border and Highland Pipes in Aberdeenshire in the 1780s.
You can look at the sheet music at the below link:
digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/90484640

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from Pay The Pipemaker, released December 3, 2021

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Jeremy Kingsbury Grand Forks, North Dakota

I host a bi-weekly bagpipe and history podcast which explores the likely repertoire eighteenth and early nineteenth century bagpipers.
I've played Highland pipes and uilleann pipes since the nineties. My albums are an opportunity for me to keep the tunes and songs I have most enjoyed from creating the podcast.

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