X:1
T:Arndilly's Reell
T:Bittae air Mac' homaich
M:C|
L:1/8
B:Cumming - A Collection of Strathspey or Old Highland Reels (1782, No. 21, p. 8)
Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion
K:A
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Arndilly House, Craigellachie, BanffshireARNDILLY'S REEL. AKA and see "Biodag Air Mac Thòmais," "Canty Body/Brody." Scottish, Reel (cut time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. John Glen finds the piece first published in Angus Cumming's 1782 collection (No. 21, p. 8), although as "Canty Body" it appears in Alexander McGlashan's collection of around the same time. Arndilly House, home to the MacDowal-Grant family, was built in 1770, remodeled in 1826 and again in 1850, the latter in the Scots baronial style.
