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GENERAL GRANT. AKA - "Bal n' Iden." Scottish, Strathspey (whole time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCCDD. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest appearance of this tune in print in biography:Angus Cumming's Collection of Strathspey or Old Highland Reels (1780, No. 36, p. 11). Michael Newton, writing in his blog "The Origins of the Strathspey: A Rebuttal" [1] believes the correct Scots Gaelic title of Cumming's "Bal n' Iden " should be "Bail’ an Aodainn."

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-'''GENERAL GRANT'''. AKA - "Bal n' Iden." Scottish, Strathspey (whole time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCCDD. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest appearance of this tune in print in [[biography:Angus Cumming]]'s '''Collection of Strathspey or Old Highland Reels''' (1780, No. 36, p. 11).
+'''GENERAL GRANT'''. AKA - "Bal n' Iden." Scottish, Strathspey (whole time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCCDD. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest appearance of this tune in print in [[biography:Angus Cumming]]'s '''Collection of Strathspey or Old Highland Reels''' (1780, No. 36, p. 11). Michael Newton, writing in his blog "The Origins of the Strathspey: A Rebuttal" [https://virtualgael.wordpress.com/2014/01/04/the-origins-of-the-strathspey-a-rebuttal/] believes the correct Scots Gaelic title of Cumming's "Bal n' Iden " should be "Bail’ an Aodainn."
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