Piping Press

The final letter in the Oban Times correspondence of 1926 on the ‘redundant A’ controversy. It comes from a reader, Allan Thomson, from Govan, Glasgow. ‘I have been closely following the discussion in your valuable paper about taorluath and crunluath in pibroch [sic], and also crunluath a mach movements. By The Editor ‘I admire the spirit and courage of Mr Grant in backing up the piobaireachd book of Angus MAcKay….

We continue with the Oban Times correspondence of 1926 on the ‘redundant’ low A controversy. GS McLennan remains adamant in his response to P/M John Grant……. ‘In referring to the ‘Piobaireachd as MacCrimmon Played It’, Mr Grant asks a number of questions regarding the way the crunluath is written in certain tunes and then says, ‘In all these instances Lt McLennan [GS’s father] gave the crunluath in what is traditionally…

What is the ‘redundant A’ ? Whole generations have come and gone since the controversy was aired on the pages of the Oban Times a century ago. The correspondence reached its apogee in 1926 with none other than the great GS McLennan weighing in. We run a series of letters to the newspaper, including his, beginning today. By The Editor Firstly we need to establish what the cause of all…