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HODDOM/HODDAM CASTLE. Scottish, Slow Air (6/8 time). B Flat Major (Carlin): G Major (Gatherer). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody was composed by Mr. (Charles) Sharpe of Hoddam as a slow air, although the tune is un-attributed in the Gows' Third Collection (1792), in which other tunes are attributed to Sharpe (for more on whom see "Mr. Sharpe's Delight"). Hoddam Castle [1] is in the vicinity of Lockerbie, Dumfriesshire, southwest Scotland. It was sold in 1690 to John Sharpe and remained in the family for several generations.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Carlin (The Gow Collection), 1986; No. 333. Gatherer (Gatherer's Musical Museum), 1987; p. 22. Gow (Third Collection of Niel Gow's Reels), 1792; p. 6 (3rd ed.).

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