Annotation:MacLachlan's Reel

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MACLACHLAN'S REEL. Scottish, Strathspey. C Major (Glen): D Major (Aird). Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest appearance of the tune in print in Angus Cumming's 1780 A Collection of Strathspeys or Old Highland Reels (p. 16). Glen notes distinct similarities with Henry Playford's "Cronstoune", printed in 1700.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Aird (Aird's Sixth and Last Collection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs), 1803; No. 36, p. 15. Glen (The Glen Collection of Scottish Dance Music), vol. 1, 1891; p. 11.

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