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X: 1 T:No.42 The Teelin Highland [2] C:highland M:4/4 L:1/8 F:http://www.john-chambers.us/~jc/music/abc/mirror/misao-fiddler/src/%259:NO42THETEELINHIGHLAND.abc K:D (3Bcd eg fdeA|(3Bcd ef gfgA|(3Bcd eg fdea| |[1gedB A2 AG:|[2gedB A2 A^g||a2 ea fded| cABA cee^g|a2 ea fdea|gedB A2 A^g|a2 ea faea| cABA cee^g|a2 eg fefa|gedB A2 A2||

TEELIN HIGHLAND [2], THE. AKA and see “Tom Tailor's Highland.” Irish, Highlands. Ireland, southwest Donegal highlands. A Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB (Feldman & O’Doherty/Byrne): AABB (Feldman & O’Doherty/Doherty). There are several tunes called “Teelin Highland,” which come from the small village of Teelin, Donegal. Caoimhin Mac Aoidh states that most of them came through the playing of Con Cassidy who would have obtained them from his cousins, Frank, Paddy and Johnnie Cassidy. Composer credit for “The Teelin Highland” is attributed to Johnnie Cassidy, Frank's older brother.

Additional notes
Source for notated version : - fiddler John Doherty (1895-1980, County Donegal) [Feldman & O’Doherty, p. 80]; fiddlers Francie and Mickey Byrne (Couty Donegal) [Feldman & O’Doherty, p. 173].

Printed sources : - Feldman & O’Doherty (The Northern Fiddler), 1979; p. 80 & p. 173.

Recorded sources : - Green Linnet SIF 1109, Altan "The Red Crow" (1990. Learned from Belfast musicians Dermie & Tara Diamond and Andy Dixon).

See also listing at :
Alan Ng's Irishtune.info [1]

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