Annotation:Freddie's Tune

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 FREDDIE'S TUNE. Shetland, Air (3/4 time). Shetland, Unst. B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. A slow air by the influential Isle of Unst fiddler Fredamann Stickle (b. in last half of 18th century), that had no title; older fiddlers called it "Freddie's Tune".  Source for notated version:  Printed sources: Carlin (Master Collection), 1984; No. 135, p. 83.  Recorded sources: Topic 12TS379 - Aly Bain & Tom Anderson - "Shetland Folk Fiddling, vol. 2" (1978).  See also listing at: Hear Tom Anderson introducing and playing the tune at Tobar an Dualchais

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