Annotation:Lord Reay

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LORD REAY (Mac Aoidh). Scottish, Slow Air (4/4 time). D Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. "The air of Lord Reay, the editor apprehends to be one of Robert Donn Mackay, the Sutherland poet's composition, on some memorable and melancholy event in that family" (Fraser).

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Fraser (The Airs and Melodies Peculiar to the Highlands of Scotland and the Isles), 1816; No. 23, p. 8. Manson (Hamilton’s Universal Tune Book vol. 1), 1853; p. 177.

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