Annotation:Chiu-Ri-Ruo

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 CHIU-RI-RUO (The Bird's Song). Scottish, Air (3/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA. Originally an ancient Scots harp tune. It was printed by Elias Howe c. 1867 as "Talk:Chi-ri-vus", labelled "a North Highland air." It was published in Edinburgh in 1784 by Patrick MacDonald, in his A collection of Highland vocal airs, never hitherto published, to which are added a few of the most lively country dances or reels of the North Highlands and Western Isles (appears as "Chiu-ri-ruo"). Printed source: Neil (The Scots Fiddle), 1991; No. 121, p. 160.

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