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BONNIE KATE OF EDINBURGH. Scottish, Slow Air (4/4 time). C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB (McGibbon): AABBCC (Oswald). The air can also be found in the 1840 music manuscript collection of multi-instrumentalist John Rook, of Waverton, near Wigton, Cumbria.

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Printed sources: McGibbon (Scots Tunes, Book 1), c. 1746; p. 3. Neil (The Scots Fiddle), 1991; No. 10, p. 13. Oswald (Caledonian Pocket Companion, Book V), 1760; p. 5.

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