Annotation:Scarlet Clog (The)

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SCARLET CLOG, THE. AKA - “Tommy’s E Flat Clog.” Canadian, Clog (cut time). Canada, Nova Scotia. E Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune was recorded as “Tommy’s E Flat Clog” by the Irish group Moving Clouds.

Additional notes

Source for notated version: - Winston Fitzgerald (1914-1987, Cape Breton) who may have learned the tune from Tommy Doucette (1902 – c. 1992, Digby, Nova Scotia, and Boston) [Cranford].

Printed sources : - Cranford (Winston Fitzgerald), 1997; No. 38, p. 14.

Recorded sources: -

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