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AULD SNATWELL. Shetland, (Slow) Jig. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCCDD. A traditional Shetland jig learned by Tom Anderson from the playing of fiddler Peter Fraser, who thought it might have been a wedding tune. Fraser was an early member of the Shetland Folk Lore Society, formed in the last years of the Second World War, and a member of the Folk Society Band.

Peter Fraser

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Anderson (Ringing Strings), 1983; p. 59.

Recorded sources: Great Meadow Music GMM 2002, Rodney Miller & David Surette - "New Leaf" (2000).

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