Annotation:Fear A Figue
Tune properties and standard notation
FEAR A FIGUE. Scottish, Strathspey. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Nigel Gatherer learned from one of his students that a a 'pig' is an old Scots term for a stone bottle meant to be filled with hot water and placed under the sheets to warm them. The Gaelic word to bottle is phige, and the man who supplied them was know as fear a' phige, or the bottle man.
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