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RAGS, THE (Les Guenilles). French-Canadian, Reel. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCCCC (Phillips): AA'BB'CC' (Reiner & Anick). A common French-Canadian reel, according to David Green in liner notes to “Louis Beaudoin” (Philo Records, 1973).

Source for notated version: Dennis Mathieu via Louis Beaudoin (Burlington, Vt.) [Reiner & Anick]; Ken Kosek [Phillips].

Printed sources: Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1), 1994; p. 194. Reiner & Anick (Old Time Fiddling Across America), 1989; p. 64.

Recorded sources: Philo 2000, "Louis Beaudoin" (1973. Learned in Burlington, Vt., from Dennis Mathieu).

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