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DOUBLE KISSES. AKA - "Kiss Her Twice." Scottish, Reel. C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest printing of this tune in Robert Bremner's 1757 collection. The reel also appears in the 1770 music manuscript collection of Northumbrian musician William Vickers, as "Double Kisses or, Kiss hir Twise." Unfortunately, nothing is known about Vickers. Flute player Thomas Molyneaux (Shelburne, Nova Scotia) also included it in the second of his two music copybooks (c. 1788). There are similarities to "Tartan Plaid (2)" (with parts reversed) in Rev. R. Harrison's (Cumbria) 1815 music manuscript and County Longford fiddler Larry Smyth's c. 1900 music manuscript collections.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Aird (Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs), vol. II, 1785; No. 185, p. 69. Bremner (Scots Reels), 1757; p. 75. MacDonald (The Skye Collection), 1887; p. 120. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; p. 66.

Recorded sources: Rounder 7020, Alex Francis MacKay – "A Lifelong Home" (1997).




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