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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 (1868-1943), a London native and graduate of the city's Royal Caledonian Asylum, who became one of the greatest professional Scottish Highland bagpipers, dancers and athletes of the 1890s. Mather was Piper to MacDonald of Lunga and later Lady Anne Murray at Loch Carron, and won the Gold Medal at the pipe competition at Inverness in 1899. Mather emigrated to Canada in the first years of the 20th century, but soon moved to the United States where he worked at the Anaconda Mines in Montana. He lived in Butte, Anaconda and Norris, dividing his time between working for the Anaconda Copper Co. and prospecting and mining with several partners.
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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