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MISS NANCY KENNEDY'S REEL. Scottish, Reel (cut time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest appearance of this tune in print in Ayrshire fiddler-composer biography:John Riddell's 1782 second collection (p. 48), published in Glasgow by James Aird. The tune was entered into the music manuscript collection of John Buttery who emigrated to Ontario, Canada.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Riddell (Collection of Scots Reels, Minuets, &c.), 1782; p. 48.
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