Annotation:Castle Barr

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 CASTLE BARR. English, Jig. F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABC. A delightful English-sounding jig. The melody also appears in a manuscript copybook of Thomas Hammersley, c. 1790 (in the British Library). Castle Barr = Castlebar, Ireland? Source for notated version: Printed sources: Geoghegan (Compleat Tutor for the Pastoral or New Bagpipes), c. 1745-46; p. 32. Recorded sources:

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