Annotation:Royal Aberdeenshire Highlanders' (The)

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X:1 % T:Royal Aberdeenshire Highlanders', The C:Alexander Walker M:C L:1/8 R:March B:Walker - Collection of Strathspeys, Reels, Marches etc. (1866, p. 24) Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion F:http://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105875378?mode=zoom K:C E>D|C2 G>A G2 E>F|G>E c>A G3E|C2 G>c f>ed>c|d2D2D2 E>D| C2 G>A G2 E>F|G>E c>A G3E|f>ag>f e>cd>B|c2C2C2|| e>d|c>eg>a g2 e>g|a>gc'>a g2 f>e|f>ag>e f>ed>c|e2d2d2 e>d| c>eg>a g2 e>g|a>gc'>a g2 f>e|f>ag>f e>cd>B|c2 C2 C2 e>d| c/d/e/g/ c'>a g2 g>e|c/d/e/g/ c'>a g2 g>e|g>gg>b c'>ag>e|a2d2d2 g>f| e>cd>B c3B|A>Gc>E {E}D2 C>D|E>GF>A G>c d<f|e2c2c2||

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ROYAL ABERDEENSHIRE HIGHLANDERS, THE. Scottish, March (4/4 time). C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Composed by Aberdeenshire fiddler-composer biography:Alexander Walker (b. 1819). See also Walker's composition for one of the unit's officers, "Captain Charles Leith Hay's Reel."

According to Paul Stewart Cranford (1991) the tune still has currency among Cape Breton fiddlers.