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LADY DOLL SINCLAIR. AKA and see "King of France (The)," "Matt Molloy's (3)," "Matt Peoples' (2)," "Miss Henny MacKenzie," "Miss Hetty McKenzie." Scottish, Reel. A Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest appearance of the tune in print in Robert Bremner's 1757 collection (p. 1). See also related untitled Irish reels in Breathnach CRÉ II (No. 237) and CRÉ III (No. 121), and an untitled Highland in the Feldman & O'Doherty's Northern Fiddler (1979, p. 82b).

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Bremner (Scots Reels), 1757; p. 1. Bulmer & Sharpley (Music from Ireland), vol. 4; 19. Henderson (Flowers of Scottish Melody), 1935. Hunter (Fiddle Music of Scotland), 1988; No. 242.

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