Annotation:Auld Snatwell

AULD SNATWELL. Shetland, (Slow) Jig. G Major. Standard tuning AABBCCDD. A traditional Shetland jig learned by Tom Anderson from the playing of fiddler Peter Fraser, who thought it might have been a wedding tune. Fraser was an early member of the Shetland Folk Lore Society, formed in the last years of the Second World War, and a member of the Folk Society Band.

Printed sources: Anderson (Ringing Strings), 1983; pg. 59.

Recorded sources: Great Meadow Music GMM 2002, Rodney Miller & David Surette - "New Leaf" (2000).