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'''DELNABO'''. Scottish, Strathspey. E Minor (Skinner): E Dorian (Perlman). Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB (Skinner): AABB (Perlman). Composed by J. Scott Skinner (1843-1927). Delnabo was the residence of a Colonel Smith, near 'Macpherson's cave'. In his note to the manuscript copy [http://www.abdn.ac.uk/scottskinner/display.php?ID=JSS0110] Skinner suggests that the accompanying reel for this strathspey should be "Mains of Gartly", previously printed in his '''Logie Collection'''. Later, in 1908, he composed a "Reel for Denabo" specifically to go with this tune, and arranged it for two violins and cello [http://www.abdn.ac.uk/scottskinner/display.php?ID=JSS0234]. (See also Skinner's "pastoral air" "[[MacPherson's Cave]]"). | '''DELNABO'''. Scottish, Strathspey. E Minor (Skinner): E Dorian (Perlman). Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB (Skinner): AABB (Perlman). Composed by J. Scott Skinner (1843-1927). Delnabo was the residence of a Colonel Smith, near 'Macpherson's cave'. In his note to the manuscript copy [http://www.abdn.ac.uk/scottskinner/display.php?ID=JSS0110] Skinner suggests that the accompanying reel for this strathspey should be "[[Mains of Gartly]]", previously printed in his '''Logie Collection'''. Later, in 1908, he composed a "Reel for Denabo" specifically to go with this tune, and arranged it for two violins and cello [http://www.abdn.ac.uk/scottskinner/display.php?ID=JSS0234]. (See also Skinner's "pastoral air" "[[MacPherson's Cave]]"). | ||
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DELNABO. Scottish, Strathspey. E Minor (Skinner): E Dorian (Perlman). Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB (Skinner): AABB (Perlman). Composed by J. Scott Skinner (1843-1927). Delnabo was the residence of a Colonel Smith, near 'Macpherson's cave'. In his note to the manuscript copy [1] Skinner suggests that the accompanying reel for this strathspey should be "Mains of Gartly", previously printed in his Logie Collection. Later, in 1908, he composed a "Reel for Denabo" specifically to go with this tune, and arranged it for two violins and cello [2]. (See also Skinner's "pastoral air" "MacPherson's Cave").
Source for notated version: Kenny Chaisson (b. c. 1947, Bear River, North-East Kings County, Prince Edward Island; now resident of Rollo Bay) [Perlman].
Printed sources: Perlman (The Fiddle Music of Prince Edward Island), 1996; p. 198. Skinner (Harp and Claymore), 1904; pg. 64. Skinner (The Scottish Violinist), 1900; p. 49.
Recorded sources: Rounder 7004, Joe Cormier - "The Dances Down Home" (1977).
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