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X:1 T:Lord Kinaird's Reel M:C L:1/8 R:Reel S:Bremner - Scots Reels (1757) Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:D B/(c/ | d2) d2 d(FTED) | d2 A=c TB2 AB/^c/ | dABF AFdF | E/E/E FA TB2 A :| |: (g | f)dad Tfeeg | fdad Tf2 e(g | f)dad eBdF | E/E/E FA TB2A :|



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.


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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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