Annotation:Lady Stopford's Reel (1)
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LADY STOPFORD'S REEL. Scottish, Reel. A Major (Watlen): D Major (Aird). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The reel was first published in John Watlen's Celebrated Circus Tunes (Edinburgh, 1791). It was republished some five years later by Glasgow publisher James Aird, with no credit to the source.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Aird (Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 4), 1796; No. 112, p. 44. Watlen (The Celebrated Circus Tunes), 1791; p. 18
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