Annotation:Colonel Wemys' Reel (2)

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COLONEL WEMYS' REEL [2]. AKA and see "Devil in a Bush (The)," "Kincaldrum, "Maid of Argyle's (The)," "Muldoon's Favorite." Scottish, Reel. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB (Aird): ABC (O'Neill). A different tune than Colonel Wemyss (1). The reel was printed in Ryan's Mammoth Collection (1883) as "Maid of Argyle's (The)" and in White's Unique Collection as "Muldoon's Favorite"; both were publications of the Boston-based Elias Howe music publishing company or its successor.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Aird (Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 4), 1796; No. 27, p. 10. O'Neill (O'Neill's Irish Music), 1915; No. 296, p. 148.

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