Annotation:George Reynolds

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 GEORGE REYNOLDS. Irish, Planxty (6/8 time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Composed by blind Irish harper Turlough O'Carolan (1670-1738). George Reynolds was from Letterfian, near Lough Scur, County Leitrim, and was one of the first to encourage Carolan in composition, according to O'Sullivan, with the well-known "Sheebeg and Sheemore" the result.  Source for notated version: Samuel, Ann and Peter Thompson's The Hibernian Muse: a Collection of Irish Airs, including the Most Favourite Compositions of Carolan, the Celebrated Irish Bard (London, c. 1786) [O'Sullivan].  Printed sources: Complete Collection of Carolan's Irish Tunes, 1984; No. 157, p. 107. O'Sullivan (Carolan: The Life, Times and Music of an Irish Harper), 1958; No. 157, p. 185.  Recorded sources:

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