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'''DALKEITH FAIR.''' Scottish, Reel (whole time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABC. "Dalkeith Fair" is said to have been a composition of Aberdeenshire fiddler-composer [[biography:William Marshall]] by James Davie in his '''Davie's Caledonian Repository''', 1829-30), although this attribution has not been confirmed. The reel was published earlier in Edinburgh by Nathaniel Gow, c. 1812, in a flute anthology. A Highland bagpipe setting was published by John & Robert Glen, Edinburgh pipe-makers, in 1870. "[[Cadgers of the Cannongate]]" is a closely related fiddle tune. | '''DALKEITH FAIR.''' Scottish, Reel (whole time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABC. "Dalkeith Fair" is said to have been a composition of Aberdeenshire fiddler-composer [[biography:William Marshall]] by James Davie in his '''Davie's Caledonian Repository''', 1829-30), although this attribution has not been confirmed. The reel was published earlier in Edinburgh by Nathaniel Gow, c. 1812, in a flute anthology. A Highland bagpipe setting was published by John & Robert Glen, Edinburgh pipe-makers, in 1870. "[[Cadgers of the Cannongate]]" is a closely related fiddle tune dating to the mid-18th century. | ||
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DALKEITH FAIR. Scottish, Reel (whole time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABC. "Dalkeith Fair" is said to have been a composition of Aberdeenshire fiddler-composer biography:William Marshall by James Davie in his Davie's Caledonian Repository, 1829-30), although this attribution has not been confirmed. The reel was published earlier in Edinburgh by Nathaniel Gow, c. 1812, in a flute anthology. A Highland bagpipe setting was published by John & Robert Glen, Edinburgh pipe-makers, in 1870. "Cadgers of the Cannongate" is a closely related fiddle tune dating to the mid-18th century.
Dalkeith Fair was an annual cattle fair, held after harvest-time.