Annotation:Loch Carron

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LOCH CARRON. Scottish, Pipe Reel. A Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCCDD. An early 20th century composition by David Charles "D.C." Mather (1870-1943). Mather was Piper to MacDonald of Lunga and later Lady Anne Murray at Loch Carron. He won the Gold Medal at the pipe competition at Inverness in 1899. Mather emigrated to Canada in 1903, but later moved to the United States where he worked at the Anaconda Mines in Montana.

Four and six part versions of the tune exist in pipe repertory.

Source for notated version: Winston Fitzgerald (1914-1987, Cape Breton) [Cranford].

Printed sources: Cranford (Winston Fitzgerald), 1997; No. 59, p. 25.

Recorded sources: Tannahill Weavers - "Capernaum."

See also listing at:
Alan Snyder's Cape Breton Fiddle Recordings Index [1]

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