Annotation:Miss Smyth's Reel (1)

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MISS SMYTH'S REEL. AKA and see "Nelson's Pillar," "Naval Pillar (2) (The)." Irish, Reel (cut time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Researcher Conor Ward finds the tune to be a version of "Nelson's Pillar." Fr. John Quinn found a precursor tune in Dublin publisher Maurice Hime's Hime's Collection of Favourite Country Dnaces for the Present Year (1795) under the title "Naval Pillar (2) (The)."

Source for notated version: Larry Smyth MS. c. 1900 of Abbeylara, Co. Longford [Ward].

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