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Tune Annotations:	'''I'LL HAE A PIPER TO MY GUDEMAN.''' Scottish, Slow Air (6/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. This slow 6/8 air was included by William Christie in his '''Collection of Strathspeys, Reels, Hornpipes, Waltzes &c.''' (1820), who remarked that it was an "old" melody. Christie obtained it from one J. Allardyce, whom Christie credited with several other old Aberdeenshire tunes in his collection (see "[[Duncan Swine's Wife]]," "[[Warld's gane o'er me now (The)]]," and "[[Lassie an' Siller an' a's my ain]],"
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Printed sources:	William Christie ('''Collection of Strathspeys, Reels, Hornpipes, Waltzes &c.'''), Edinburgh, 1820; p. 26.
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