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MR. THOMAS FORBES. Scottish, Strathspey. G Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Composed by the great Scottish fiddler and composer J. Scott Skinner (1943-1927). Winston Fitzgerald’s version mixed the tonality between minor and major. In 1987 Paul Cranford (writing in Cape Breton's Magazne) said the tune was not often played by Cape Breton fiddlers.

Source for notated version: Winston Fitzgerald (1914-1987, Cape Breton) [Cranford] (from a 1970 tape of the fiddler, with Lewis MacIntyre on guitar--Fitzgerald played it following "Coilsfield House").

Printed sources: Cape Breton's Magazine, No. 46, 1987; p. 19. Cranford (Winston Fitzgerald), 1997; No. 164, p. 65. MacDonald (The Skye Collection), 1887; p. 132. Skinner (The Miller o’ Hirn), 1881.

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