Annotation:Port a' Bhodaich
X:1 T:Carle’s Rant, The M:C L:1/8 R:Strathspey B:John McLachlan - Piper’s Assistant (1854, No. 10, p. 6) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:Amix e|AAe>B Tc>BAa|AAe>c d>cBe|AAe>d cAe>B|cAe>c d>c B:| |:e|c<Aag a>Aae|c<Aa>f gBBe|cAa>g aAa>e|f<a e/f/gd>c B:|
PORT A' BHODAICH. AKA and see “Carle's Rant (The).” Scottish, Strathspey (whole time). A Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB'CBB' (Kerr): ABCD (Athole, Gow, McGlashan). Port = 'tune' and bhodaich = old man, for 'the old man's tune'. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest appearance of this tune in print in Alexander 'King' McGlashan's Collection of Strathspey Reels (1780/81).