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LOCH RIACH. AKA and see "Broch Dam (The)." Scottish, March. Composed in 1926 by Aberdeenshire fiddler and composer J. Murdoch Henderson (1902-1972), dedicated to Alexander Grant of Inverness. Loch Riach was the unofficial name of a reservoir lake formed by the Broch Dam on the border of Banff and Aberdeen, and it is the place where Henderson observed the ospreys in the 1920's [1].
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Henderson (Flowers of Scottish Melody), 1935.
Recorded sources:
See also listing at:
Hear the tune played by Duncan Wood [sites.scran.ac.uk/jmhenderson/web/audio/015.rm]
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