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WANDERING TINKER, THE. AKA and see “Atholl Braes,” “Drinking Reel (The),” “Drunken Tailor (The),” “Gallagher's Best,” “Lagan Slashers,” “League and Slasher,” “Pigeon on the Pier (2),” “Pigeon on the Gate (1) (The),” “Reidy’s Reel,” “Scotch Braes (The).” Scottish, Reel. C Major (Athole, Hardie, Kerr/2): D Major (Kerr/1). Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB (Athole, Hardie, Kerr/1): AABB’ (Kerr/2). This reel first appears in Joseph Lowe’s Collection, Book 5.

Source for notated version: William Hardie Jr. of Methlick, Scotland (c. 1856-1944), editor and fiddler Bill Hardie’s grandfather [Hardie].

Printed sources: Hardie (Caledonian Companion), 1986; p. 35. Kerr (Merry Melodies, vol. 2), c. 1880’s; No. 91, p. 12. Kerr (Merry Melodies, vol. 1), c. 1880’s; Set 20, No. 6, p. 13. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; p. 71.

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