Annotation:Cairngorm Brooch

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CAIRNGORM BROOCH. AKA and see "Old Reel (The)." Scottish, Canadian; Reel. Canada; Cape Breton. A Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. A Scottish variant of the "Flowers of Limerick (1) (The)," "Bunch of Keys (1)" tune family. As "The Old Reel" it can be found in J. Davies' Caledonian Repository (1829). A Caringorm brooch is a pin made of a smoky yellow or brown quartz, used as a gem stone, found in the Cairngorm mountains.

An antique brooch with a cairngorm stone.



Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Cranford (Brenda Stubbert's), 1994; No. 34, p. 12.

Recorded sources:




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