Annotation:Meikleour Beeches (The)

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MEIKLEOUR BEECHES, THE. Scottish, Air (4/4time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Composed by the great Scots fiddler-composer J. Scott Skinner (1843-1927). Skinner notes the Meikleour Beeches were "a famous hedge near Blairgowrie, some 80 feet in height. Said to have been planted in 1746."

J. Scott Skinner

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Skinner (Harp and Claymore), 1904; p. 155.

Recorded sources:

See also listing at:
See Gavin Greig's handwritten manuscript of the tune for the Harp and Claymore at the Univ. of Aberdeen Skinner site [1]

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