Annotation:Maid's Complaint (1) (The)
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MAID'S COMPLAINT [1], THE. Irish, Slip Jig (8/8 time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB (Cole, Ryan): AA'BB' (Kennedy). The tune as published in Ryan's Mammoth Collection (1883) is an exact copy of an untitled jig in James Mason's Hamilton's Universal Tune Book, vol. 2 (Glasgow, 1846, p. 1). It is a member of the "Top it Off/Tip it Off" family of slip jigs.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Cole (1000 Fiddle Tunes), 1940; p. 70. Kennedy (Fiddler's Tune-Book: Slip Jigs and Waltzes), 1999; No. 44, p. 11. Manson (Hamilton’s Universal Tune Book, vol. 2), 1846; p. 1 (appears as "Irish Jig"). Ryan's Mammoth Collection, 1883; p. 100.
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