Annotation:Dunbarton's Drums

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DUNBARTON'S DRUMS. AKA and see "Dumbarton's Drums." Scottish, Air (4/4 time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Note that "Dunbarton" is variously spelled with an 'm' or 'n'. "Dunbarton's Drums" is the regimental march of the Royal Scots Regiment. The name derives from the time when Lord George Douglas, created Earl of Dumbarton in 1675, was Colonel, and the Regiment was known as "Dumbarton's Regiment." Country dance figures to a dance called "Dunbarton's Drums" appear in the The Ladies and Gentlemen's Companion, a volume published in 1803 by H. Mann (Dedham, Mass.).

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Printed sources: Howe (1000 Jigs and Reels), c. 1867; p. 123. Mulhollan (Selection of Irish and Scots Tunes), Edinburgh, 1804; p. 7. O'Farrell (Pocket Companion, vol. III), c. 1808; p. 55.

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