Annotation:John Morrison Assynt House
Tune properties and standard notation
JOHN MORRISON, ASSYNT HOUSE. Scottish (originally), Canadian; Pipe Reel. Canada; Prince Edward Island, Cape Breton. A Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABCDEF (Cranford, Little, Martin): AABBCCDDEEFF (Perlman). The tune was composed in the 20th century by the Scottish Pipe Major Peter MacLeod. It is a popular tune among Cape Breton fiddlers and has been recorded often.
Source for notated version: Little got many of his tunes from Cape Breton style fiddler Harvey Tolman (Nelson, N.H.) [Little]; Buddy MacMaster (Cape Breton), Peter Chaisson, Sr. (North-East Kings County, PEI) and Carl & Jackie Webster (Cardigan, Central Kings County, PEI) [Perlman]; Winston Fitzgerald (1014-1987, Cape Breton) [Cranford].
Printed sources: Cranford (Winston Fitzgerald), 1997; No. 53, p. 22. John Wilson's Collection of Highland Bagpipe Music, vol. 1, 1937. Little (Scottish and Cape Breton Fiddle Music in New Hampshire), 1984; pp. 34-35. Martin (Ceol na Fidhle), vol. 4, 1991; p. 11. Perlman (The Fiddle Music of Prince Edward Island), 1996; p. 106.
Recorded sources: BM-91, Buddy MacMaster - "Glencoe Hall."
See also listing at:
Alan Snyder's Cape Breton Fiddle Recordings Index [1]