Annotation:Forbes's Sneeshin Mull

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 FORBES'S SNEESHIN MULL. Scottish; Slow Air, Strathspey or Reel. G Major/Mixolyidian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Composed by Scots fiddler-composer J. Scott Skinner (1843-1927) at the 'Pusey Hotel 17th May 1900', according to his manuscript copy. 'Sneeshin Mull' refers to a snuff mill, while 'Forbes' may have been Aberdeen fiddler Forbes Morrison, according to the University of Aberdeen's "Music of James Scott Skinner" site. Another manuscript copy of the tune comes with the inscription: "To Kindly Forbe's an' his country Hame with the Strathspey King's (i.e. Skinner himself) regard."  Source for notated version:  Printed sources: Skinner (Harp and Claymore), 1904; p. 70.  Recorded sources:

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