Annotation:Let Us to the Aird

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LET US TO THE AIRD. AKA - "Let's to the Ard." AKA and see "Duchess of Athole (1) (The)." Scottish, Strathspey. F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (McGlashan): AAB (Bremner, Gow). The title perhaps refers to Loch Ard. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest appearance of the melody in print in Robert Bremner's 1757 collection.

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Printed sources: Bremner (Scots Reels), c. 1757; pp. 62-63 (appears as "Lets to the Ard"). Gow (Complete Repository, Part 1), 1799; p. 28. McGlashan (Collection of Strathspey Reels), c. 1780/81; p. 18.

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