Annotation:Lord Forbes March

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LORD FORBES MARCH. AKA and see "Piobaireachd Dhomhnaill" (Donald's Pipes). Scottish, Fiddle Pibroch (Piobaireached) (6/8 time). A Mixoldyian. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. The tune appears in Scottish musician and dancing master David Young's fiddle book, the MacFarlane Manuscript (c. 1740, vol. 2, No. 7), and is an fiddle version of an earlier bagpipe piobareach called "Piobaireachd Dhomhnaill." See also the variant "Pibroch of Donald Dhu (1)" or "Pipe Summons of Donald the Black (The)."

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See a standard notation transcription of David Young's version in the MacFarlane Manuscript (c. 1740) [1]

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