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Ancient music lost—Transmission by tradition—Druidical remains—Systems of teaching—No books—“Unintelligible jargon”—_Canntaireachd_—The Mac Crimmon System—The Gesto Book—A scientific system—A tune in _Canntaireachd_—Pipers unable to explain—Earliest printed pipe music— Mac Donald’s Books—More recent books—Something to be done.