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A 'port' is a Scots Gaelic word for tune or air (note the pronunciation of the word at the start of the video). It's a kind of tuning prelude - lots of open strings - and Gaelic song. This particular port is an exemplar - note the rising octaves at the start and falling ones at the end. From the Straloch lute manuscript, 17th-century Scotland.
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