Annotation:Pipe Slang (The)

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PIPE SLANG, THE (Feadan glan a'phiobair). Scottish, Pipe Reel. A Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB (Athole, Fraser): AABB' (Kerr). "In the words of the pipe slang, the noisy rattling piper of a country wedding draws a ridiculous comparison betwixt his own music and that of the violin, so frequently interrupted by the breaking of strings, tuning, &c., whereas, he appeals to all the bonny lasses, if his chanter was ever known to fail while they continued dancing" (Fraser).

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Fraser (The Airs and Melodies Peculiar to the Highlands of Scotland and the Isles), 1816; No. 49, p. 17. Kerr (Merry Melodies, vol. 2), c. 1880’s; No. 56, p. 9. Laybourn (Köhler’s Violin Repository vol. 3), 1885; p. 197. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; p. 46.

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