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MR. McLAINES SCOTCH MEASURE. Scottish, Country Dance (cut time). C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody is categorized as a Scottish Measure, a type of country dance. It appears in Henry Playford's 1700 collection of Scottish dance tunes and in the Blaikie MS of 1692 (as "Maclean's Scots Measure"). The Blaikie ms. is a music manuscript collection of tunes for the Viol da Gamba, from engraver Andrew Blaikie of Paisley.

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