Annotation:Canary Reel (The)

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X:1 T:Canary Reel, The M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel B:Rev. Luke Donnellan music manuscript collection (c. 1909, Oriel region, B:south Ulster) K:Gmin BG G/G/G DGGB|AFcF dFcF|BG....



CANARY REEL, THE. AKA and see "Colonel Fraser." Irish, Reel (cut time). G Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. "The Canary Reel" is contained in the music manuscript collection of curate and fiddler biography:Rev. Luke Donnellan (1878-1952), Oriel region, south Ulster[1]. Researcher Conor Ward finds Donnellan's tune corresponds with "Colonel Fraser."


Additional notes
Source for notated version : - Rev. Luke Donnellan music manuscript collection [O'Connor].

Printed sources : - O'Connor (The Rose in the Gap), 2018; No. 156, p. 86.






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  1. Donnellan researcher Gerry O'Connor came to believe the ms. is not the work of the curate but rather was originally compiled by an unknown but able fiddler over the course of a playing lifetime, probably in the late 19th century. The ms. later came into the possession of Donnellan, who was also a fiddler.