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CELTIC SOCIETY'S QUICKSTEP, THE. Scottish, March (2/4 time). A Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB (Lerwick): AABB (Kerr). The tune also appears in the 1820 music manuscript collection of Highland bagpiper Robert Millar, "Forfar Reg. and Piper to the Aberdeen Highland Society."

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Kerr (Merry Melodies), vol. 3 (c. 1885); No. 416, p. 46. Lerwick (The Kilted Fiddler), 1985; p. 67.

Recorded sources: Green Linnet SIF 1047, John Cunningham - "Fair Warning" (1983)




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