Annotation:Johnnie Steele
Tune properties and standard notation
JOHNNIE STEELE. AKA and see "Auld Brig of Ayr (The)," "Bob Steele," "New Brig o' Dee (The)," "Miller o' Dervil (The)," "Benholm Castle." Scottish, Strathspey. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Hunter): AAB (Skinner). Composed originally by James Barnett (1847-1898) of Kirkwall, Orkney, although the melody has been developed by others under a variety of titles. J Murdoch Henderson (Flowers of Scottish Melody, 1935) remarks that Peter Lennie, also a fiddler from Kirkwall, "is said to have had a hand in framing Barnett's air."
Source for notated version: Köhler's Violin Repository [Skinner].
Printed sources: Hunter (Fiddle Music of Scotland), 1988; No. 102. Köhler's Violin Repository, Book II (1881-1885). Skinner (Harp and Claymore), 1904; p. 82.
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