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FAILLTE NA MEISG (Salute to Drunkenness). Scottish, Air or Pibroch (3/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). Editor G.F. Graham notes: "This tune is ancient--it has been lying in manuscript in a family--so long indeed that tho' it was composed immediately before they go it, I would call it a tolerable age. I procured it and give it to the world, with the addition of a plain bass."

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Graham (Celtic Melodies, Being a Collection of Original Slow Highland Airs, Pipe-Reels, and Cainntearachd, vol. 1), Edinburgh, c. 1830; No. 28, pp. 16-17.

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