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PEERIE HOOSE AHINT/AHUNT THE BURN, DA (The Little House Behind/By the Stream). AKA and see “Fay’s Hornpipe,” "Fey's Hornpipe" (English). Shetland Islands, March or Reel. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The title is Shetland dialect for “The Little House by the Stream,” in other words, the out-house.

Source for notated version: Williamson (English, Welsh, Scottish and Irish Fiddle Tunes), 1976; p. 46.

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Recorded sources: BBC Records REB 84M, Tom Anderson's Shetland Fiddle Band - "Scottish Fiddlers to the Fore." CAT-WMR004, Wendy MacIssac - “The ‘Reel’ Thing” (1994). Olympic 6151, The Shetland Fiddlers' Society - "Scottish Traditional Fiddle Music" (1978).

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