Annotation:Castleblaney Piper (The)

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CASTLEBLANEY PIPER, THE. Irish, Double Jig. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB'. Composed by County Cavan/Philadelphia fiddler Ed Reavy (1898-1988). Castleblaney is in County Monaghan, where Reavy's mother once resided with her family. The young Reavy would visit relatives in the area and remembered the region for its great pipers.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Reavy (The Collected Compositions of Ed Reavy), No. 81, p. 89.

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