Annotation:Chuir I Glùn Air a' Bhodach


Sheet Music for "Chuir I Glùn Air a' Bhodach"Chuir I Glùn Air a' BhodachReelBook: Stewart-Robertson - The Athole Collection (1884)Transcription: AK/Fiddler's Companion



CHUIR/CUIR I GLÙN AIR A BHODACH (She put her knee on the old man). Scottish, Reel. A Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. "Very old." Popular in both Scotland and Cape Breton, often played an octave lower for variation (playing on the "back strings", says Christine Martin).

Additional notes

Source for notated version: -

Printed sources : - MacDonald (The Skye Collection), 1887; p. 119. Martin (Traditional Scottish Fiddling), 2002; p. 78. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; p. 45.

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