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The Gesto Collection

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This is a reprint of the 1895 Highland music collection made by Keith Norman MacDonald on Skye. The book contains an eclectic mixture of Gaelic airs (some with lyrics), pipe tunes and general fiddle tunes played and collected in the 19th Century.
Dr Keith Norman MacDonald was an enthusiast and a collector, but he was not a careful editor and he sent his collection of music to his printers in Leipzig with most of the items in the form in which they had been given to him. The result is that the Gesto Collection contains a mixture of items, traditionalgaelic songs alongside military marches, and so on.
The most important item would seem to be the 68 page appendix which shows evidence of careful editing by Frances Tolmie who lived on Skye and was one of the greatest authorities of her times on Gaelic music and song.

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