Annotation:Gramin
Tune properties and standard notation
GRAMIN. Scottish (originally), Canadian; Hornpipe. Canada, Cape Breton. B Flat Major. Standard tuning. AABB. Composed by the great Scottish fiddler and composer J. Scott Skinner (1843-1927). Gramin was the name of a friend of the composer's. Skinner wrote another tune for him called "Good Bye Gramin, published in his Logie Collection (1888), when he learned of his friend's plans to emigrate to the United States. Gramin left for Minnesota early in 1889.
Source for notated version: Winston Fitzgerald (Cape Breton) [Cranford].
Printed sources: Cranford (Winston Fitzgerald: A Collection of Fiddle Tunes), 1997; No. 24, p. 9.
Recorded sources: Breton Books and Records BOC 1HO, Winston "Scotty" Fitzgerald - "Classic Cuts" (reissue of Celtic Records CS 44). Dorian DOR-90282, Laura Risk - "The Merry Making" (2000). Howie MacDonald - "The Ceilidh Trail."
See also listings at:
Alan Snyder's Cape Breton Fiddle Recordings Index [1]
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [2]