Annotation:Whipman's Rant (The)

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WHIPMAN'S RANT, THE. AKA – “Is Your Graith in Order.” Scottish, Strathspey. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Atole): AABB (Gow). The tune appears in Gow’s Complete Repository Part 1 as “Is your Graith in order, or the whipman’s Rant," with six measures to each strain.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Anonymous (A Companion to the Reticule), 1833; p. 7. Gow (Complete Repository, Part 1), 1799; p. 4. Manson (Hamilton's Universal Tune Book vol. 2), 1844; p. 46. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; p. 100.

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