Annotation:Miss Polly Skiner’s Reel

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X:1 T:Miss Polly Skiner’s Reel M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel S:Bremner – Scots Reels (1757) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:D F | DdFd E/E/E EF | DdFd DdFd | (e/d/c/B/ d)F E/E/E EF | DdFA D/D/D D :| |: f | (d/e/f/g/ a)f geef | (d/e/f/g/ a)f bgaf | gefd geef | (d/c/B/A/ d)F D/D/D D :||

MISS POLLY SKINER. AKA - "Miss Polly Skinner," "Miss Skinner's Reel." Scottish, Reel. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest appearance of the tune in print in Robert Bremner's 1757 collection (p. 2). The reel also appears in David Rutherford's Compleat Collection of 200 country Dances, vol. 2 (1760, p. 81).

Additional notes
Source for notated version : - Browne Family music manuscripts (c. 1800, Lake District, Cumbria) [Offord].

Printed sources : - Bremner (Scots Reels), 1757; p. 2. Laybourn (Köhler’s Violin Repository, Book 2), 1881-1885; p. 190. John Offord (Bonny Cumberland), 2018; p. 25.

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