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NEW BRIG OF GLASGOW, THE. AKA and see "Cumberland Reel," "Miss Nancy Gibson." Scottish, Strathspey. G Minor. Standard tuning. AB (Cole): AAB (Howe): AA'B (Gatherer). An anonymous tune commemorating the opening of a new bridge in Glasgow which was completed in 1768. Glen (1891) finds the earliest printing of this tune in Angus Campbell's collection (p. 24). Edinburgh publishers Gow and Shepherd printed the tune under the title "The Cumberland Reel, or Miss Nancy Gibson" as a single sheet issued around 1800, finds Nigel Gatherer.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Cole (1000 Fiddle Tunes), 1940; p. 125. Gatherer (Gatherer's Musical Museum), 1987; p. 35. Howe (1000 Jigs and Reels), c. 1867; p. 156. Ryan's Mammoth Collection, 1883; p. 165.

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