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…