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HUNTINGTONE CASTLE. AKA and see "Hard is the fate of him who loves." Scottish, Slow Air (6/8 time). E Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB (Martin): AA'BB' (Neil). The melody appears in John Bowie's A Collection of Strathspey Reels & Country Dances (Edinburgh, 1789).

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: S. Johnson (A Twenty Year Anniversary Collection), 2003; p. 39. Martin (Ceol na Fidhle), vol. 1, 1991; p. 17 (includes a harmony part). Manson (Hamiliton's Universal Tune Book, vol. 1), 1853; p. 152 (appears as "Hard is the fate of him who loves"). Martin (Taigh na Teud), 1990; p. 19. Neil (The Scots Fiddle), 1991; No. 143, p. 182.

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