Annotation:Dolly Dimple

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DOLLY DIMPLE. Irish, Reel (whole time). A Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. O'Neill's "MacLean's Favorite" has a similar first strain.

Additional notes

Source for notated version: - the Rice-Walsh manuscript, a collection of music from the repertoire of Jeremiah Breen, a blind fiddler from North Kerry, notated by his student [O'Neill].

Printed sources : - Abeyta, MacUileagóid, Guerin, de Grae, Dalton (Drawing from the Well: A Selection of Music from the North Kerry Tradition), 2010; p. 26. O'Neill (Waifs and Strays of Gaelic Melody), 1922; No. 260.

Recorded sources: -



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