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NIEL GOW'S STYLE ("Stoile Neill Ghobha" or "Staoileach Neill Ghobha"). Scottish, Strathspey. B Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Hardie): AAB (Fraser): AABB (Alburger). Composed by Captain Simon Fraser. This tune "is merely Niel Gow's sprightly style imitated by the editor, in which his friends are pleased to say he has made a happy effort" (Fraser). Perhaps not--Collinson (1966) calls the tune a "rather poor parody" of its inspirer.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Alburger (Scottish Fiddlers and Their Music), 1983; Ex. 99, p. 164. Fraser (The Airs and Melodies Peculiar to the Highlands of Scotland and the Isles), 1816; No. 149, 60. Hardie (Caledonian Companion), 1992; p. 91.

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