Annotation:Loch Glassie

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LOCH GLASSIE. Scottish, Reel. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Paul Cranford suggests that this tune began as a variant of the better-known "Jenny Dang the Weaver" due to similarity in some melodic material.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Kerr (Merry Melodies), vol. 1; Set 28, No. 2, p. 17. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; p. 93.

Recorded sources: Rounder 82161-7032-2, Bill Lamey - "From Cape Breton to Boston and Back: Classic House Sessions of Traditional Cape Breton Music 1956-1977" (2000).

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