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Salute to MacDonald of Staffa

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Failte Domhnallach Stabha

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This striking tune is only known to us from the setting which appears in Peter Reid's manuscript. The tune as given by Reid consists of Urlar and Thumb variations followed immediately by variations 3 and 4 of the PS score, then dithis and doubling followed by the instruction "here a Toarluidh and Creanluidh with each a Singling and Doubling - & D.C".

In an article on the MacArthurs in the Piping Times (August 1973) the late PM Willie Gray records that two nephews of Charles MacArthur settled in Ulva and were pipers to Boidsdale and Staffa. It is reasonable to surmise that this tune is a MacArthur composition.

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PS Book 13