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BELLES OF LEWISTON. AKA and see "Blue Eyed Lassie," "Lewis’s Reel." American, Reel. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune appeared in Providence, Rhode Island, violinist and dance fiddler George Saunders 1847 violin tutor as "Lewis’s Reel", in which Saunders claimed composer credit for the tune. The title "Belles of Lewiston" (probably meant to be a reference to Lewiston, Maine) appears in Ryan's Mammoth Collection (1883) some 36 years later. It was either a distortion or miss-hearing of Saunders' title, or a deliberate obscuring of it.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Ryan's Mammoth Collection, 1883; p. 49.

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-'''BELLES OF LEWISTON'''. AKA and see &quot;[[Blue Eyed Lassie]].&quot; American, Reel. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. An American rendering of a Scottish reel. The title probably refers to Lewiston, Maine.
+'''BELLES OF LEWISTON'''. AKA and see "[[Blue Eyed Lassie]]," "[[Lewis’s Reel]]." American, Reel. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune appeared in Providence, Rhode Island, violinist and dance fiddler George Saunders 1847 violin tutor as "[[Lewis’s Reel]]", in which Saunders claimed composer credit for the tune. The title "Belles of Lewiston" (probably meant to be a reference to  Lewiston, Maine) appears in '''Ryan's Mammoth Collection''' (1883) some 36 years later. It was either a distortion or miss-hearing of Saunders' title, or a deliberate obscuring of it.
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