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At our Board of Directors Meeting on October 6, 2010, I gratefully accepted a copy of Sullivan Ross Volume I from David Hunter (Director, Past President, Webmaster and Newsletter Editor of the Scottish Studies Foundation) on behalf of the Clan Ross Association of Canada, Incorporated. Our Association would appreciate any further information about living descendants of Sullivan Ross (Zorra's Piper) and his Collection of Violin and Bagpipe music held by the curators at the Canadian Museum of Civilization.
We thank all who have contributed to the preservation of the work of Sullivan Ross and we appreciate the announcement which was included with the 144-page Hardcover facsimile edition. Our association will be pleased to add the name of Sullivan Ross to our growing list of famous Canadians in our Clan. A copy of the first paragraph in the announcement is included here in order to underscore Sullivan's importance, as follows: "The Sullivan Ross Collection of Violin and Bagpipe music, now in the Canadian Museum of Civilization, is a unique window into the music of the rural southern Ontario of 1850 to 1900. It includes four books of music handwritten by Sullivan Ross during those years – a total of 490 pages, containing about 1300 tunes (volumes 2, 3 and 4 have pipe music only). Most of the tunes have been arranged by Sullivan, many of them extensively; these pages describe the way he played them. At least six of the pipe tunes are his own compositions – he is believed to be the first Canadian composer of bagpipe music. Also in the collection is Sullivan's copy of the Donald Macdonald 1831 printed book of bagpipe music, which is the only known surviving copy of its edition."
We thank all who have contributed to the preservation of the work of Sullivan Ross and we appreciate the announcement which was included with the 144-page Hardcover facsimile edition. Our association will be pleased to add the name of Sullivan Ross to our growing list of famous Canadians in our Clan. A copy of the first paragraph in the announcement is included here in order to underscore Sullivan's importance, as follows: "The Sullivan Ross Collection of Violin and Bagpipe music, now in the Canadian Museum of Civilization, is a unique window into the music of the rural southern Ontario of 1850 to 1900. It includes four books of music handwritten by Sullivan Ross during those years – a total of 490 pages, containing about 1300 tunes (volumes 2, 3 and 4 have pipe music only). Most of the tunes have been arranged by Sullivan, many of them extensively; these pages describe the way he played them. At least six of the pipe tunes are his own compositions – he is believed to be the first Canadian composer of bagpipe music. Also in the collection is Sullivan's copy of the Donald Macdonald 1831 printed book of bagpipe music, which is the only known surviving copy of its edition."
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