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. See also Daniel Wright's cognate "Jenny's Whim (3)."

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. Cumming (Collection of Strathspey or Old Highland Reels), 1780; No. 49, p. 16. Glen (The Glen Collection of Scottish Dance Music), vol. 1, 1891; p. 11.

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