Annotation:Whalen's Breakdown

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WHALEN'S BREAKDOWN. Canadian, Reel. C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB. The tune was popularized by the great Canadian radio and TV fiddler Don Messer, originally from New Brunswick, Canada. A 6/8 jig time variant of this reel is called “Bride of the Winds.”

Source for notated version: Vivian Williams (Seattle) [Phillips].

Printed sources: Page (Northern Junket, vol. 6, No. 8), February 1959; p. 22. Page (Northern Junket, vol. 10, No. 10), October 1971; p. 28. Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1), 1994; p. 254.

Recorded sources: Alcazar Dance Series FR 204, Rodney Miller - "New England Chestnuts 2" (1981).

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