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'''FORTH BRIG [2], THE'''. Scottish, Hornpipe. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB' (Skinner): AA'BB' (O'Malley). Composed by J. Scott Skinner (1843-1927) in commemoration of the opening of the railway bridge over the Forth of Firth in 1890. | '''FORTH BRIG [2], THE'''. Scottish, Hornpipe. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB' (Skinner): AA'BB' (O'Malley). Composed by J. Scott Skinner (1843-1927) in commemoration of the opening of the railway bridge over the Forth of Firth in 1890. Similarities with Skinner's hornpipe "[[Mathematician (The)]]", according to the Univ. of Aberdeen's J. Scott Skinner site [http://www.abdn.ac.uk/scottskinner/display.php?ID=JSS0201]. | ||
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Tune properties and standard notation
FORTH BRIG [2], THE. Scottish, Hornpipe. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB' (Skinner): AA'BB' (O'Malley). Composed by J. Scott Skinner (1843-1927) in commemoration of the opening of the railway bridge over the Forth of Firth in 1890. Similarities with Skinner's hornpipe "Mathematician (The)", according to the Univ. of Aberdeen's J. Scott Skinner site [1].
Source for notated version: O'Malley probably took his version from the playing of Sean Maguire.
Printed sources: O'Malley (Luke O'Malley's Collection of Irish Music, vol. 1), 1976; No. 148, p. 74. Skinner (The Scottish Violinist), 1900; p. 46. Skinner (Harp and Claymore), 1904; p. 129.
Recorded sources: