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HJOGROVOLTAR. Shetland, Shetland Reel. Shetland, Fetlar. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. An asymmetrical (i.e. mixed 2/4 and 3/4 measures) Shetland reel with a Scandinavian name indigenous to the island of Fetlar, which was still used there for dancing in the 1970's.

Source for notated version: Joe Jamieson (Fetlar, Shetland) [Cooke].

Printed sources: Cooke (The Fiddle Tradition of the Shetland Isles), 1986; Ex. 10, p. 61.

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