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'''FYKET [1], THE'''. Scottish, Strathspey or Reel. A Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB (Gow): AABB' (Athole, Skye). "Very Old" (Skye). John Glen (1891) finds | '''FYKET [1], THE'''. Scottish, Strathspey or Reel. A Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB (Gow): AABB' (Athole, Skye). "Very Old" (Skye). A strathspey setting of the 'double-tonic' reel that John Glen (1891) finds earliest in print in Robert Bremner's 1757 collection (see "[[Fyket (2) (The)]]" for the reel setting). 'Fyket' means 'to fidget', as in fidgeting fingers. | ||
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FYKET [1], THE. Scottish, Strathspey or Reel. A Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB (Gow): AABB' (Athole, Skye). "Very Old" (Skye). A strathspey setting of the 'double-tonic' reel that John Glen (1891) finds earliest in print in Robert Bremner's 1757 collection (see "Fyket (2) (The)" for the reel setting). 'Fyket' means 'to fidget', as in fidgeting fingers.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Aird (Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs), vol. 1, 1782; 28. Bremner (A Collection of Scots Reels), 1757; p.6. Carlin (Gow Collection), 1986; No. 60. Gow (The First Collection of Niel Gow's Reels), 1784 (revised 1801); p. 26. MacDonald (The Skye Collection), 1887; p. 13. Stewart-Robertson (Athole Collection), 1884; p. 38.
Recorded sources:
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