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'''LADY CAROLINE BLIGH'S REEL.''' AKA and see "[[Nimble Fingers (1)]]." Scottish (?), Reel (cut time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. "[[Nimble Fingers (1)]], printed in '''Ryan's Mammoth Collection''' (1883), is nearly identical, save for a change of key. Both tunes are cognate versions of "[[Miss | '''LADY CAROLINE BLIGH'S REEL.''' AKA and see "[[Nimble Fingers (1)]]." Scottish (?), Reel (cut time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Lady Caroline Bligh was the first daughter of the 3rd Earl of Darnley, who married Charles William Vane Stewart [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Vane,_3rd_Marquess_of_Londonderry] (1778-1856), Marquis of Londonderry, in 1804. He was an Irish soldier in the British army and a politician. She died in 1812 of fever following a minor operation, while her husband was on active service in the Peninsula Campaign in the wars with Napoleon. | ||
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"[[Nimble Fingers (1)]], printed in '''Ryan's Mammoth Collection''' (1883), is nearly identical, save for a change of key. Both tunes are cognate versions of "[[Miss Thornton’s Reel]]." | |||
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LADY CAROLINE BLIGH'S REEL. AKA and see "Nimble Fingers (1)." Scottish (?), Reel (cut time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Lady Caroline Bligh was the first daughter of the 3rd Earl of Darnley, who married Charles William Vane Stewart [1] (1778-1856), Marquis of Londonderry, in 1804. He was an Irish soldier in the British army and a politician. She died in 1812 of fever following a minor operation, while her husband was on active service in the Peninsula Campaign in the wars with Napoleon.
"Nimble Fingers (1), printed in Ryan's Mammoth Collection (1883), is nearly identical, save for a change of key. Both tunes are cognate versions of "Miss Thornton’s Reel."
The tune appears in the large mid-19th century music manuscript collection of County Cork cleric and uilleann piper Canon biography:James Goodman.