Annotation:Merry Maid's Wedding

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MERRY MAID'S WEDDING. AKA and see "Haughs of Cromdale (The)," "Spilling of the Kail (The)." Scottish, Reel. A Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). John Glen (1891) finds the earliest appearance of this tune in print in Alexander McGlashan's collection. It appears under the title "Sud mar chaidh an càl a dholidh" (The Spilling of the Kail) in Glasgow piper, pipe teacher and pipe-maker William Gunn's Caledonian Repository of Music Adapted for the Bagpipes (1848).

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Printed sources: Gunn (Caledonian Repository of Music Adapted for the Bagpipes), 1848; p. 31 (as "Sud mar chaidh an càl a dholidh/Spilling of the Kail"). McGlashan (Collection of Strathspey Reels), c.1780/81; p. 31.

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