Annotation:Reel of Bervie

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X:1 % T:Càrn Bran T:Reel of Bervie M:C L:1/8 R:Reel B:William Gunn - The Caledonian Repository of Music B:Adapted for the Bagpipes (Glasgow, 1848, p. 18) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:Amix f|eAcA e2 cf|eAce fB<Bf|eAcA g2 af|ecdB cAA:| g|fefa ccce|Bgfe fB<Bg|fefa c<caf|ecdB cAAg| fefa ccce|Bgfe fB<Ba|cece dfdf|ceBd cAA||



REEL OF BERVIE (Càrn Bran). Scottish, Pipe Reel (whole time). A Mixoldyain. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The first strain of the tune is cognate with "Lucy Campbell (4)" and, more distantly, Canon Goodman's "Connaught Reel (4) (A)."

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Printed sources : - William Gunn (Caledonian Repository of Music Adapted to the Bagpipes), 1848; p. 18.

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