Còta Bàn Odhar (An)

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Theme code Index	1435 6547bL
Also known as	Dun Petticoat (The)
Composer/Core Source
Region	Scotland, Canada
Genre/Style	Cape Breton/PEI, Pipe, Scottish
Meter/Rhythm	Reel (single/double)
Key/Tonic of	A
Accidental	2 sharps
Mode	Mixolydian
Time signature	4/4
History	CANADA(Maritimes/English)
Structure	AB
Editor/Compiler	Biography:Barry W. Shears
Book/Manuscript title	Book:Gathering of the Clans Collection vol. 1
Tune and/or Page number	p. 49
Year of publication/Date of MS	1986
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CÒTA BÀN ODHAR, AN (The Dun Petticoat). Scottish, Canadian; Reel. Canada, Cape Breton. A Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The tune appears in the music manuscript collection of Captain Angus J. MacNeil, Gillis Point, Cape Breton, compiled around the year 1915. According to Shears (1986), MacNeil was an officer-piper with the 94th Regiment, Victoria Battalion, organized for home defense during World War I. His unit had the distinction of being the only British Empire unit with over 80% of its officers and enlisted being Gaelic speakers!

Printed sources: David Glen (The Edinburgh Collection, vol. 5), c. 1910. Shears (Gathering of the Clans Collection, vol. 1), 1986; p. 49 (pipe setting).