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X: 1 T: da Sixereen C: Tom Anderson O: Shetland 1947 R: slow reel, hornpipe, strathspey Z: John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu> N: A sixereen is a 6-oared Norse-style boat used in the Shetlands. M: 4/4 L: 1/16 F:http://www.john-chambers.us/~jc/music/abc/Shetland/hornpipe/Sixereen.abc 2019-11-11 154414 UT K: D |: a3g \ | "D"f3e dB3 A4 F4 | "G"B3A GF3 "A7"E4 A3G | "D"F3G Ad3 "E7"^GB3 e3d | "A"c4 A4 A4 a3g | | "D"f3e dB3 A4 F4 | "G"B3A GF3 "A7"E4 A3G | "D"F3G Ad3 "A7"A,3C EG3 | "D"F4 D4 D4 :| [| f3g \ | "D"a3A de3 f4 e3f | "A"g3A ce3 g4 f3e | "Bm"df3 Bd3 "E7"^GB3 e3d | "A"c4 A4 A4 f3g | | "D"a3A de3 f4 e3f | "A"g3A ce3 g4 f3e | "D"fa3 da3 "A7"ea3 ce3 | "D"f4 d4 d4 f3g || || "D"a3A de3 f4 e3f | "A"g3A ce3 g4 f3e | "Bm"df3 Bd3 "E7"^GB3 e3d | "A"c4 A4 A4 a3g | | "D"f3e dB3 A4 F4 | "G"B3A GF3 "A7"E4 A3G | "D"F3G Ad3 "A7"A,3C EG3 | "D"F4 D4 D4 |]

SIXEREEN, DA. AKA - "Da Sixern." AKA and see "Yock Her in de Bight Boy." Shetland, Slow Reel or Hornpipe (whole time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'B. Composed in 1947 by Shetland fiddler, composer, teacher, and authority biography:Tom Anderson (1910-1991), born in Eshaness on the northwestern mainland of Shetland. The tune name comes from the six-oared fishing boats, sixereens (or, as pronounced in Shetland, sixeren) of the Shetland Islands, which are shaped like a Norse galley, and Anderson composed the tune "after viewing the remains of a sixereen [1] on the Hillswick beach which, in its later life, had been used as a flit boat in Hillswick" (Anderson).

Additional notes

Source for notated version: -

Printed sources : - Anderson & Georgeson (Da Mirrie Dancers), 1970; p. 32. Hardie (Caledonian Companion), 1992; p. 52.

Recorded sources: - Leader/Trailer LED-2 052, Forty Fiddlers - "Shetland Fiddlers" (1973). Philo 1042, Boys of the Lough - "The Piper's Broken Finger" (1976). Transatlantic XTRA 1171, Boys of the Lough - "Rosin the Bow" (1977). Waverly GLN1023, Tom Anderson - "The Fiddler's Companion" (1980).

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-[[File:Sixereen.jpg|400px|thumb|A sixereen]]'''SIXEREEN, DA.''' AKA - "Da Sixern." AKA and see "[[Yock Her in de Bight Boy]]." Shetland, Slow Reel or Hornpipe (whole time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'B. Composed in 1947 by Shetland fiddler, composer, teacher, and authority [[biography:Tom Anderson]] (1910-1991), born in Eshaness on the northwestern mainland of Shetland. The tune name comes from the six-oared fishing boats, sixereens (or, as pronounced in Shetland, ''sixeren'') of the Shetland Islands, which are shaped like a Norse galley, and Anderson composed the tune "after viewing the remains of a sixereen [https://janetteandjo.blogspot.com/2017/07/light-in-lum-and-light-below-that.html] on the Hillswick beach which, in its later life, had been used as a flit boat in Hillswick" (Anderson).
+[[File:Sixereen.jpg|500px|thumb|A sixereen]]'''SIXEREEN, DA.''' AKA - "Da Sixern." AKA and see "[[Yock Her in de Bight Boy]]." Shetland, Slow Reel or Hornpipe (whole time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'B. Composed in 1947 by Shetland fiddler, composer, teacher, and authority [[biography:Tom Anderson]] (1910-1991), born in Eshaness on the northwestern mainland of Shetland. The tune name comes from the six-oared fishing boats, sixereens (or, as pronounced in Shetland, ''sixeren'') of the Shetland Islands, which are shaped like a Norse galley, and Anderson composed the tune "after viewing the remains of a sixereen [https://janetteandjo.blogspot.com/2017/07/light-in-lum-and-light-below-that.html] on the Hillswick beach which, in its later life, had been used as a flit boat in Hillswick" (Anderson).
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