Annotation:Dunmaglass

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 DUNMAGLASS. AKA and see "Gillean ban a' mhuilleir," "Miller Lads." Scottish, Strathspey. F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB'. This is "the composition of a man the name of Gow, who lived in Dunmaglass, in Inverness-shire, during the last century. He was miller, carpenter, and minstrel to the family of Dunmaglass, and his sins, in the capacity of gamekeepers or sportsmen, supplied the table with venison and game. The air celebrates the alertness of those young fellows" (Fraser).  Source for notated version:  Printed sources: Fraser (The Airs and Melodies Peculiar to the Highlands of Scotland and the Isles), 1816/1874; No. 80, p. 29.  Recorded sources:

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