1. Historical information is presemted on my na comhluighe pages.
2. Edward Bunting, The Ancient Music of Ireland, Hodges & Smith, Dublin, 1840, p.2
3. Facsimiles are available online, at Queens University Belfast:
Bunting ms29 p.156 (f76r).
4. Thanks to Siobhán Armstrong for pointing this rather self evident fact out to me in August 2009.
5. John Bell's Notebook, cited in Henry George Farmer, 'Some Notes on the Irish Harp' Music & Letters vol. XXIV, April 1943; also in Keith Sanger, 'Patrick O'Byrne and John Bell' Folk Harp Journal 53, June 1986.
6. JMA Lenihan and S MacNeill, ‘An Acoustical Study of the Highland Bagpipe’, Acoustica 4, 1954. Also in Seamus MacNeill, Piobaireachd, BBC Publications 1968.
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© Simon Chadwick 2009 - part of the history of the Gaelic harp, at earlygaelicharp.info/tuning