Annotation:Highland Whiskey
Tune properties and standard notation
HIGHLAND WHISKEY. Scottish, Slow Strathspey. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Honeyman, Surenne): AAB (Athole, Gow, Hunter, Kerr, Martin, Skye). Composed by Scottish fiddler Niel Gow on the occasion of the brief banning in 1799 of the distilling of whiskey.
Source for notated version: fiddler and teacher Jean-Ann Callender (Aberdeen) [Martin].
Printed sources: Carlin (The Gow Collection), 1986; No. 73. Gow (Complete Repository), Part 4, 1817; p. 26. Honeyman (Strathspey, Reel and Hornpipe Tutor), 1898; p. 21. Hunter (Fiddle Music of Scotland), 1988; No. 127. Kerr (Merry Melodies), vol. 1; Set 8, No. 3, p. 7. MacDonald (The Skye Collection), 1887; p. 26. Martin (Traditional Scottish Fiddling), 2002; pg. 12. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; p. 6. Surenne (Dance Music of Scotland), 1852; pp. 148-149.
Recorded sources:
See also listing at:
Alan Snyder's Cape Breton Fiddle Recordings Index [1]