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I will be working my way through a number of Campbell Canntaireachd pieces that were not notated prior to the wave of secondary literature that came post Angus MacKay. The first up is Slan Fuive. (To learn more, see here.) What will be standard in my scores is the notation of a variety of options available to the performer: full-grip and half-grip toarluaths; half-grip, redundant-A and full-grip crunluaths; various options for "hi" - the Campbell Canntaireachd term for one of several cadences available to the user. I expect any of you competitors to find this kind of score more or less useless. Unfortunately, this kind of thing will become commonplace as primary-source scores become available and it becomes obvious that Archibald Campbell's editorial job for the Piobaireachd Society was both idiomatic and an abstract from the variety of options and styles that comprise the idiom.  Judges are generally open to those of you who are willing ...