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REEL DE MONTRÉAL [1]. AKA - "Reel de Sherbrooke," "Sherbrooke Reel." French-Canadian, New England; Reel. G Major ('A' part) & D Major ('B' part). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB (Miller & Perron): AA’BB’ (Songer). The British hornpipe "Navvie on the Line" is cognate in the first strain. Tunes by the name "Reel de Montréal" were recorded by harmonica great Henri Lacroix in 1928, and Montreal fiddler Joseph Allard in 1930; however Allard's reel is a different tune (see "Reel de Montréal (2)."

Additional notes

Source for notated version: - Deborah Lindsay [Songer].

Printed sources : - Miller & Perron (New England Fiddlers Repertoire), 1983; No. 164. Page (Ralph Page Book of Contras), 1969. Songer (Portland Collection), 1997; p. 138.

Recorded sources: - Brunswick 52005 (78 RPM), Heri Lacroix (1928). Fretless 200a, Yankee Ingenuity - "Kitchen Junket" (1977). Smithsonian Folkways SFW CD 40126, Northern Spy – “Choose Your Partners!: Contra Dance & Square Dance Music of New Hampshire” (1999).


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