Annotation:Mr. D. Bridges Reel

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 MR. D. BRIDGE’S REEL. Scottish, Reel. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The tune appears in James Aird’s Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. V (1797, p. 37), Glasgow, Scotland. It also can be found in the music manuscript copybooks of Cumbrian fiddler John Rook (1840), and, as “Miss D. Bridges Reel”, in the manuscript of fiddler John Burks (1821). Unfortunately, nothing is known of the latter musician, although he may have been from the north of England.  Source for notated version:  Printed sources:  Recorded sources:

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