Annotation:Chuir I Glùn Air a' Bhodach

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CHUIR/CUIR I GLÙN AIR A BHODACH (She put her knee on the old man). Scottish, Reel. A Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. "Very old." Popular in both Scotland and Cape Breton, often played an octave lower for variation (playing on the "back strings", says Christine Martin).

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Printed sources : - MacDonald (The Skye Collection), 1887; p. 119. Martin (Traditional Scottish Fiddling), 2002; p. 78. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; p. 45.

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