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Tune Annotations:	'''JOHN MORRISON, ASSYNT HOUSE'''. Scottish (originally), Canadian; Pipe Reel. Canada; Prince Edward Island, Cape Breton. A Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABCDEF (Cranford, Little, Martin): AABBCCDDEEFF (Perlman). The tune was composed in the 20th century by the Scottish Pipe Major Peter MacLeod (1878-1964), born in Aird on the Isle of Lewis. His son, also Peter (1916-1974) was likewise a skilled piper and composer. The Sr. MacLeod enlisted in the 17th Cameronians Scottish Rifles and by World War I was a Pipe Major. Sent to the Middle East, he saw service in Egypt and Gallipoli. After the war he found employment as a shipwright on the Clyde, a career cut short when an accident necessitated the amputation of his right leg. However, with World War II the demand for labor found him re-employed in the shipyards, where he worked until his retirement in 1955 at the age of 77. Peter MacLeod Sr. composed some 200 pipe tunes. John Morrison, Assynt House, was a founder member of the Lewis Pipe Band, formed on the 5th. July 1904, an association that lasted his lifetime. <br> <br> "John Morrison, Assynt House" was popularized among Cape Breton fiddlers through the playing of Winston 'Scotty' Fitzgerald, and has proven a popular and often recorded piece.
Source for notated version:	Little got many of his tunes from Cape Breton style fiddler Harvey Tolman (Nelson, N.H.) [Little]; Buddy MacMaster (Cape Breton), Peter Chaisson, Sr. (North-East Kings County, PEI) and Carl & Jackie Webster (Cardigan, Central Kings County, PEI) [Perlman]; Winston Fitzgerald (1014-1987, Cape Breton) [Cranford].
Printed sources:	Cranford ('''Winston Fitzgerald'''), 1997; No. 53, p. 22. '''John Wilson's Collection of Highland Bagpipe Music, vol. 1''', 1937. Little ('''Scottish and Cape Breton Fiddle Music in New Hampshire'''), 1984; pp. 34-35. Martin ('''Ceol na Fidhle, vol. 4'''), 1991; p. 11. Perlman ('''The Fiddle Music of Prince Edward Island'''), 1996; p. 106.
Recorded sources:	BM-91, Buddy MacMaster - "Glencoe Hall." Rodeo RO-115 (78 RPM), Winston "Scotty" Fitzgerald.
See also listing at:	Alan Snyder's Cape Breton Fiddle Recordings Index [http://www.cbfiddle.com/rx/tune/t1145.html]<br>

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