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Sheet Music for "The Strong Seed"The Strong SeedStail graoi (An)AirSlow and with expressionSource: Joyce - Old Irish Folk Music and Songs (1909)Transcription: AK/Fiddler's Companion




STRONG STEED, THE (An stail graoi). Irish, Slow Air (3/4 time). G Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB.


Additional notes
Source for notated version : - Ned Goggin the professional fiddler of Glenosheen Co. Limerick (1844 to 1850)" [Joyce]. Goggin was P.W. Joyce's neighbor at the time, "the professional fiddle player of Glenosheen in the County Limerick from the time of my childhood to the present day" [approx. 1830's-1870][1].

Printed sources : - P.W. Joyce (Old Irish Folk Music and Songs), 1909; No. 164, p. 83.






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  1. P.W. Joyce, Ancient Irish Music (1873), comment with reel No. 51, p. 51.
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