Annotation:Lord Banff's Reel

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LORD BANFF'S REEL (Ríl an Tiarna Banff). Irish, Reel. E Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. A reel version of the Scottish strathspey "Lord Banff." Breathnach (1996) notes that it is unusual to have an Irish reel set in the key of E Major, but that "some musicians-particularly fiddlers-like to have the occasional one as a challenge."

Source for notated version: a c. 1880's collection by fiddler and uilleann piper biography:Stephen Grier (Farnaght, County Leitrim) [Breathnach].

Printed sources: Breathnach (CRÉ IV), 1996; No. 127, p. 63.

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