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MARR LODGE. Scottish, Reel. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Composed by Biography:Alexander Walker. Mar Lodge is an estate in Aberdeenshire, near Braemar in the Cairngorms, and contains four of the five highest mountains in the United Kingdom. It includes the upper watershed of the River Dee and remnant Caledonian pine forest, and is now entirely within the boundaries of Cairngorms National Park.

"King Edward VII, and Queen Alexandra at Mar Lodge: An Impromptu Sword-Dance by the Duff Highlanders after Luncheon (1901)

Mar Lodge [1] itself was a sporting lodge first constructed in the 18th century by Lord Braco; however, the lodge has been rebuilt several time since then, on the same site, after the previous structures were destroyed by fire.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Walker (A Collection of Strathspeys, Reels, Marches, &c.), 1866; No. 14, p. 5.

Recorded sources:

See also listing at:
Alan Snyder's Cape Breton Fiddle Recordings [2]




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