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LOCH RUAN. Scottish, March (4/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Composed by Highland piper George Maceachran MacIntyre (1918–1997) of Campbeltown, who served with the 8th Argylls and was taken prisoner at St. Valery in 1940. MacIntyre lived for many years in Corby, England, but later returned to Campbelton. He was for a time piper to Colonel Gayre of Nigg at Minard Castle, Loch Fyne (his collection of original pipe compositions is named after Minard Castle).

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Gayre (Minard Castle Collection of Pipe Music), 1986. Martin (Ceol na Fidhle, vol. 3), 1988; p. 14.

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