Annotation:Merry Maid's Wedding
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MERRY MAID'S WEDDING. AKA and see "Breach of Killiecranky (The)," "Four and Twenty Highlandmen (1)," "Haughs of Cromdale (The)," "Islay Pipe Reel (An)," "Lord Kingarth," "Oyster Wives Rant (The)," "Spilling of the Kail (The)." Scottish, Reel. A Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). John Glen (1891) finds the earliest appearance of this tune in print in Alexander McGlashan's collection. It appears under the title "Sud mar chaidh an càl a dholidh" (The Spilling of the Kail) in Glasgow piper, pipe teacher and pipe-maker William Gunn's Caledonian Repository of Music Adapted for the Bagpipes (1848), and as "An Islay Pipe Reel" in Finlay Dunn and George Farquhar Graham's Celtic Melodies (c. 1830). James Kerr printed a version as "Lord Kingarth." The first strain is shared with the "Haughs of Cromdale (The)" family of tunes, but the second strain differs.
