Annotation:Castle Spynie
Tune properties and standard notation
CASTLE SPYNIE. Scottish, Strathspey. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Composed by J. Scott Skinner (1842-1927). Castle Spynie is an ancient ruin of a fort or broch situated on the top of a bare rock some 800 ft. above sea level in the Parish of Kirkhill, west of Moniack, Inverness-shire. The walls are 14 ft. thick and are made of undressed stones with no mortar.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: MacDonald (The Skye Collection), 1887; p. 56.
Recorded sources: