Annotation:Forfar Hunt
Tune properties and standard notation
FORFAR HUNT, THE. Scottish, Reel. B Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB (Lerwick, Shears): AABB' (Athole). Composition credited to A. Allan by MacDonald in the Skye Collection. The 'hunt' of the title refers to a genteel hunting and social club. Forfar, in Angus, is the supposed site of the last great battle between the Picts and the Scots in 845, before Kenneth MacAlpin united the kingdoms.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Lerwick (Kilted Fiddler), 1985; pp. 22-23. MacDonald (The Skye Collection), 1887; p. 66. Shears (Gathering of the Clans Collection, vol. 1), 1986; p. 58 (pipe setting). Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; p. 133.
Recorded sources: Rounder Records 82161-7032-2, Bill Lamey - "From Cape Breton to Boston and Back: Classic House Sessions of Traditional Cape Breton Music 1956 – 1977" (2000).
See also listings at:
Alan Snyder's Cape Breton Fiddle Recordings Index [1]