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Annotation:Comical Reel
X:1 T:Comical Reel, The M:C L:1/8 R:Reel B:Stephen Grier music manuscript collection (Book 2, c. 1883, No. 76, p. 16) B: http://grier.itma.ie/book-two#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=15&z=244.2165%2C817.4307%2C2558.7355%2C1028.881 N:Stephen Grier (c. 1824-1894) was a piper and fiddler from N:Newpark, Bohey, Gortletteragh, south Co. Leitrim. Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:A E|A2 cA eAcA|Bcde fBBc|A2 cA eAcA|dfed cA A2:| g|a2 ga fedc|Bcde fBBg|a2 ga fedc|defg aA Ag| a2 ga fedc|Bcde fBBd|cAAf eAAg|aefd cA A2||
COMICAL REEL. AKA and see "Rakes of Invercairn." Irish, Reel (cut time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Comical Reel" was entered into the large c. 1883 music manuscript collection (Book 2, No. 76, p. 18) of County Leitrim fiddler and piper biography:Stephen Grier. An almost identical version is also contain in the c. 1909 music manuscript collection of biography:Rev. Luke Donnellan (Oriel Region, south Ulster) as "Rakes of Invercairn." Researchers Fr. John Quinn and Conor Ward find the tune cognate with the tune family that includes "Honorable Mrs. Maule's Reel, Sheep Shanks, Linen Cap, Kilkenny Hunt, and Struy Lodge."
