Annotation:MacLachlan's Rant

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MACLACHLAN'S RANT. AKA - "McLachlan's Rant." Scottish, Strathspey. D Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCC. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest appearance of the tune in print in Neil Stewart's A Collection of Strathspey Reels (1761, p. 29).

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: McGlashan (Collection of Strathspey Reels), c. 1780/81; p. 18 (as "McLachlan's Rant").

Recorded sources:

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