Annotation:Highlander's Kneebuckle (5) (The)

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HIGHLANDER'S KNEEBUCKLE [5], THE. Irish, Reel. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. A reel-time setting of the slide or single jig in "Highlander's Kneebuckle (2) (The)."

Source for notated version: Darley & McCall had the tune from a piper from County Galway, Stephen Ruane, who was deceased at the time of publication (1914). They noted that Ruane was "an excellent performer": From the playing of the late north Kerry fiddler Paddy O'Sullivan, via Paul de Grae.

Printed sources: Darley & McCall (The Feis Ceóil Collection of Irish Airs), 1914; No. 30, p. 12 (appears as "A Galway Reel").

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