Annotation:Duncan McNabb's Reel

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X:1 T:Duncan McNabb's Reel M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel B:Rev. Luke Donnellan music manuscript collection (c. 1909, Oriel B:region, south Ulster) K:Ador ag|eA A/A/A gaeg|dedB GABd |eA A/A/A gaeg|dBgB Aaga| eA A/A/A gaeg|dedB GABd |eA A/A/A gaeg|dBgB A2 AB|| eaag a2 aa|gedB GABd|eaag a2 aa|gedB A2 AB| eaag a2 aa|gedB GABG|(3ABc Bd (3cde df|(3efg fa gedB||

DUNCAN McNABB'S REEL. Irish, Reel (cut time). A Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. "Duncan McNabb's Reel" is contained in the music manuscript collection of curate and fiddler biography:Rev. Luke Donnellan (1878-1952), Oriel region, south Ulster^[1]. The title also appears in a list of tunes in his repertoire brought by Philip Goodman, the last professional and traditional piper in Farney, Louth, to the Feis Ceoil in Belfast in 1898 (Breathnach, 1997).

Additional notes
Source for notated version : - Rev. Luke Donnellan music manuscript collection [O'Connor].

Printed sources : - Gerry O'Connor (The Rose in the Gap), 2018; No. 187, p. 98.

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↑ Donnellan researcher Gerry O'Connor came to believe the ms. is not the work of the curate but rather was originally compiled by an unknown but able fiddler over the course of a playing lifetime, probably in the late 19th century. The ms. later came into the possession of Donnellan, who was also a fiddler.

[1] Donnellan researcher Gerry O'Connor came to believe the ms. is not the work of the curate but rather was originally compiled by an unknown but able fiddler over the course of a playing lifetime, probably in the late 19th century. The ms. later came into the possession of Donnellan, who was also a fiddler.

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