Annotation:Ferrie Reel
Tune properties and standard notation
FERRIE REEL (Fairy Reel). Shetland, Reel. Shetland, Island of Yell. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. According to Tom Anderson (1978) the tune was one of the Yell tunes that were revived and played by Bobbie Jamieson and Willie Barclay Henderson. He identifies it as a trowie (troll) tune which tradition has it as heard emanating from a hole in the ground by a fiddler returning from performing at a wedding.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Anderson (Haand Me Doon da Fiddle), 1979. Carlin (Master Collection), 1984; No. 112, p. 73.
Recorded sources: Topic 12TS379, Aly Bain & Tom Anderson - "Shetland Folk Fiddling, vol. 2" (1978).