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WHEN I WAS A MAIDEN (Nuair bha mi fein 'nam mhaidun). AKA - "When I was a Maid." Scottish, Pipe Reel. A Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB'. A pipe tune first published in William Gunn's Caledonian Repository of Music in 1848. Gunn (1795-1867) was a maker of bagpipes who resided in Glasgow, where he also had a piping school. He was one of the first pipemakers to publish a collection.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Gunn (The Caledonian Repository of Music), 1848; p. 21. MacDonald (Skye Collection), 1887; p. 12.

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