Annotation:Pate Baillie's Jig

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PATE BAILLIE'S JIG. Scottish, Jig. E Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBC. Pate Baillie (1774-1841) lived in Loanhead, Midlothian, and was a mason (though his nick-name was "the fiddling tinker") and musician. He published a collection of tunes in 1825, although this tune does not appear in it; it is not known if he was the composer.

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Pate Baillie

See also his strathspey "Peter Baillie (1), or Lonach Highland Fling."

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Kerr (Merry Melodies, vol. 1), c. 1880’s; No. 27, p. 33.

Recorded sources:

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