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STORNAWAY CASTLE. Canadian, Pipe Reel (cut time). A Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABCCDD. "Stornaway Castle" was composed by Peter MacLeod Jr. (1917-1972), whom Paul Stewart Cranford (2015) calls a 'child prodigy'. This reel was published in 1935 in John Wilson's first collection, when MacLeod would have been aged 18. His father was a Pipe Major and composer.


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Printed sources : - Cranford (The Cape Breton Highland Collection), 2015; No. 85, p. 45. John Wilson's Collection of Highland Bagpipe Music Book 1, 1935.

Recorded sources : - World Records WRC1-2733, Carl MacKenzie - "Cape Breton Fancy" (198?).




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