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'''MR. THOMAS FORBES'''. Scottish, Strathspey. G Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Composed by the great Scottish fiddler and composer J. Scott Skinner (1943–1927). Winston Fitzgerald’s version mixed the tonality between minor and major. In 1987, Paul Cranford (writing in '''Cape Breton's Magazine''') said the tune was not often played by Cape Breton fiddlers. | '''MR. THOMAS FORBES'''. Scottish, Strathspey. G Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Composed by the great Scottish fiddler and composer J. Scott Skinner (1943–1927). Winston Fitzgerald’s version mixed the tonality between minor and major. In 1987, Paul Cranford (writing in '''Cape Breton's Magazine''') said the tune was not often played by Cape Breton fiddlers. | ||
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''Source for notated version'': Winston Fitzgerald (1914–1987, Cape Breton) [Cranford] (from a 1970 tape of the fiddler, with Lewis MacIntyre on guitar—Fitzgerald played it following "[[Coilsfield House]]"). | ''Source for notated version'': Winston Fitzgerald (1914–1987, Cape Breton) [Cranford] (from a 1970 tape of the fiddler, with Lewis MacIntyre on guitar—Fitzgerald played it following "[[Coilsfield House]]"). | ||
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''Cape Breton's Magazine'', No. 46, 1987; p. 19. | ''Cape Breton's Magazine'', No. 46, 1987; p. 19. | ||
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MR. THOMAS FORBES. Scottish, Strathspey. G Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Composed by the great Scottish fiddler and composer J. Scott Skinner (1943–1927). Winston Fitzgerald’s version mixed the tonality between minor and major. In 1987, Paul Cranford (writing in Cape Breton's Magazine) said the tune was not often played by Cape Breton fiddlers.
Source for notated version: Winston Fitzgerald (1914–1987, Cape Breton) [Cranford] (from a 1970 tape of the fiddler, with Lewis MacIntyre on guitar—Fitzgerald played it following "Coilsfield House").
Printed sources:
Cape Breton's Magazine, No. 46, 1987; p. 19.
Cranford (Winston Fitzgerald: A Collection of Fiddle Tunes), 1997; No. 164, p. 65.
MacDonald (The Skye Collection), 1887; p. 132.
Skinner (The Miller o’ Hirn), 1881.
Recorded sources:
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