Annotation:Gladstone's Bill (2)

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GLADSTONE'S BIll [2]. Irish, Reel. E Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. This version of "Gladstone's Bill" is from the Larry Smith/Smyth manuscript, and has a different second strain from that of "Gladstone's Bill (1)," from the Stephen Grier manuscript (County Leitrim, 1883). However, in a meticulous bit of tune-sleuthing, Rev. John Quinn has discovered that Smyth's second strain also appears in the Grier manuscript, attached to a different, untitled tune (No. 131 in the ms., for which see "Reel ()" in this index.

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