Annotation:Lord Banff's Reel

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X: 1 T: Lord Banff's T: R\'il an Tiarna Banff S: B.Breathnach:"Ceol Rince na hEireann" IV/127 Z: B.Black [1] L: 1/8 M: 4/4 R: reel F:http://jc.tzo.net/~jc/music/abc/mirror/redhawk.org/zouki/l.abc K: E ECB,C E2 Gc|BEGE FECF|ECB,C E2 Gc|BGFG (3EEE E2 :| egbg agfe|(3fga ge fc c2|egbg agfe|fegf (3eee e2| e2 b2 a2 g2|(3fga ge fdec|(3BBB BA GBec|BGFG (3EEE E2 ||

LORD BANFF'S REEL (Ríl an Tiarna Banff). Irish, Reel. E Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. A reel-time version of the Scottish "Lord Banff's Strathspey." Breathnach (1996) notes that it is unusual to have an Irish reel set in the key of E Major, but that "some musicians-particularly fiddlers-like to have the occasional one as a challenge."

Additional notes

Source for notated version: - a c. 1883 collection by fiddler and uilleann piper biography:Stephen Grier (c. 1824-1894, Farnaght, County Leitrim) [Breathnach].

Printed sources : - Breathnach (CRÉ IV), 1996; No. 127, p. 63.

Recorded sources: -

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