Annotation:Emigrant's Reel
Tune properties and standard notation
EMIGRANTS' REEL. Scottish, Reel. F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Cited as one of the staple tunes at Orange County, New York country dances in the 1930's (Lettie Osborn, New York Folklore Quarterly).
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Cole (1000 Fiddle Tunes), 1940; p. 37. Ryan's Mammoth Collection, 1883; p. 64. White's Unique Collection, 1896; No. 51, p. 10.
Recorded sources: