Annotation:Colonel McBlaine's Reel

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X:1 T:Colonel McBlaine's Reel M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel B:Rev. Luke Donnellan music manuscript collection (c. 1909, Oriel B:region, south Ulster) K:Gmin d|(3Bcd Gd BGdG|(3ABc Fc AFcF|(3Bcd....



COLONEL McBLAINE'S REEL. Irish, Reel (cut time). G Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. "Colonel McBlaine's Reel" is contained in the music manuscript collection of curate and fiddler biography:Rev. Luke Donnellan (1878-1952), Oriel region, south Ulster[1].


Additional notes
Source for notated version : - Rev. Luke Donnellan music manuscript collection [O'Connor].

Printed sources : - Gerry O'Connor (The Rose in the Gap), 2018; No. 214, p. 108.






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  1. Donnellan researcher Gerry O'Connor came to believe the ms. is not the work of the curate but rather was originally compiled by an unknown but able fiddler over the course of a playing lifetime, probably in the late 19th century. The ms. later came into the possession of Donnellan, who was also a fiddler.