Annotation:Dalkeith Fair

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X:1 T:Dalkeith Fair M:C L:1/8 R:Reel C:"Marshall" B:Davie’s Caledonian Repository (Aberdeen, 1829-30, p. 35) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:G B|GBdB gBdB|GBdB A/A/A A2|GBdB gBdB|AGAB G/G/G G2:| {ef}g2 dB {ef}g2 dB|AGAB A/A/A A2|{ef}g2 dB {ef}g2 dB|AGAB G/G/G G2| {ef}g2 dB {ef}g2 dB|AGAB A/A/A A2|efge abge|dBcA G/G/G G2|| g2 fg afge|dBgB A/A/A A2|g2 fg afge|d2B2 cA G/G/G G2| g2 fg afge|dBgB A/A/A Aa|gbfa egfe|dBcA G/G/G G||

DALKEITH FAIR. AKA and see "Cadgers of the Cannongate." Scottish, Reel (whole time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABC. Attributed (in Davie's Caledonian Repository) to Aberdeenshire fiddler-composer biography:William Marshall, renowned for his strathspey compositions. It was published earlier in Edinburgh by Nathaniel Gow c. 1812 in a flute anthology.

Dalkeith Fair was an annual cattle fair, held after harvest-time.

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Printed sources : - Davie (Davie’s Caledonian Repository), Aberdeen, 1829-30; p. 35. John & Robert Glen (Glen's Collection for the Great Highland Bagpipe), c. 1870; p. 25.

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