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LORD KINNEARD. AKA - "Lord Kanrey's Reel," "Lord Kinnaird." Scottish, Reel (whole time). D Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB (Gow): AABB' (Athole, Skye). John Glen (1891) finds the earliest appearance of the tune in print in Robert Bremner's 1757 collection, although it also appears in the 1768 Gillespie Manuscript of Perth.
Additional notes
Printed sources : - Bremner (Scots Reels), 1757; p. 81. Carlin (The Gow Collection), 1986; No. 438 (appears as "Lord Kinnaird"). Gow (Complete Repository), Part 3, 1806; p. 34. Joseph Lowe (Lowe's Collection of Reels, Strathspeys and Jigs, book 2), 1844–1845; p. 7. MacDonald (The Skye Collection), 1887; p. 47. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; p. 101.
Recorded sources : - Celtic CX 20, The Five MacDonald Fiddlers - "The Five MacDonalds" (c. 1950's).
See also listing at :
Alan Snyder's Cape Breton Fiddle Recordings Index [1]
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