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MISS KETTY HALL. AKA and see "Miss Katie Hall's Jig." Scottish, Jig. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA’BB’CC’AA’DD’AA’EE’AA’FF’AA’BB’. A two-part tune with four variation sets, in between which Gow directs the playing of the first part of the melody. Gow’s notation seems to indicated that a drone ‘A’ note be played at various times throughout the tune, esp. in the 2nd (‘B’) part. The variation sets printed by Gow are attributed to Biography:Sir Alexander Don and Mr. Nisbet of Dirleton, both amateur gentlemen fiddlers.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Aird (Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs), 1782, p. 29 (appears as “Katie Hall’s Reel”). Gow (Second Collection of Niel Gow’s Reels), 1788; p. 27 (3rd ed.)

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