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COLLIE CAN. AKA - "Hells Lum." Scottish, Strathspey. A Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Composed by fiddler-composer biography:Robert Petrie (1767-1830), born in Kirkmichael, Perthshire. There are two geological features in Scotland with the name Hells Lum, one is a cavern on the Banffsire coast, and the other a cliff and chasm in the Cairngorms.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Petrie (A Fourth Collection of Strathspeys, Reels, Jiggs and Country Dances), c. 1805.

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