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|f_annotation='''BRAES O' FORBES, THE.'''  AKA - "Fiddler's Braes o' Forbes (The)."  Scottish, Pipe Strathspey (whole time). A Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. "Braes o' Forbes" was composed by George S. McLennan (1884-1929), Pipe Major with the Gordon Highlanders. Paul Stewart Cranford (2015) published a version that circulated for some time among Cape Breton fiddlers as an untitled traditional tune. The fiddle version differs in detail but is recognizable the same as McLennan's pipe tune, although Cranford christened his version "Fiddler's Braes o' Forbes" to underline the difference.  
|f_annotation='''BRAES O' FORBES, THE.'''  AKA - "Fiddler's Braes o' Forbes (The)."  Scottish, Pipe Strathspey (whole time). A Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. "Braes o' Forbes" was composed by George S. McLennan (1884-1929), Pipe Major with the Gordon Highlanders. Paul Stewart Cranford (2015) published a version that circulated for some time among Cape Breton fiddlers as an untitled traditional tune. The fiddle version differs in detail but is recognizable the same as McLennan's pipe tune, although Cranford christened his version "Fiddler's Braes o' Forbes" to underline the difference.
|f_printed_sources=Cranford ('''The Cape Breton Highland Collection'''), 2015; p. 20 (as "Fiddler's Braes o' Forbes"). George S. McLennan ('''Highland Bagpipe Music'''), 1929; p. 35.
|f_printed_sources=Cranford ('''The Cape Breton Highland Collection'''), 2015; p. 20 (as "Fiddler's Braes o' Forbes"). George S. McLennan ('''Highland Bagpipe Music'''), 1929; p. 35.
|f_recorded_sources=Atlantic Music02 77657 50222 26, Kyle & Lucy McNeil - "Atlantic Fiddles" (1994. Various artists. Appears as "Gan Ainm/Untitled).
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BRAES O' FORBES, THE. AKA - "Fiddler's Braes o' Forbes (The)." Scottish, Pipe Strathspey (whole time). A Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. "Braes o' Forbes" was composed by George S. McLennan (1884-1929), Pipe Major with the Gordon Highlanders. Paul Stewart Cranford (2015) published a version that circulated for some time among Cape Breton fiddlers as an untitled traditional tune. The fiddle version differs in detail but is recognizable the same as McLennan's pipe tune, although Cranford christened his version "Fiddler's Braes o' Forbes" to underline the difference.


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Printed sources : - Cranford (The Cape Breton Highland Collection), 2015; p. 20 (as "Fiddler's Braes o' Forbes"). George S. McLennan (Highland Bagpipe Music), 1929; p. 35.

Recorded sources : - Atlantic Music02 77657 50222 26, Kyle & Lucy McNeil - "Atlantic Fiddles" (1994. Various artists. Appears as "Gan Ainm/Untitled).




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