Annotation:Far O'er Strudy

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FAR O'ER STRUY. Scottish, "Retreat Air" (3/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Composed by J.P. MacLeod, a piper and pipe-maker of Tain, who won the gold medal for pibroch at Inverness in 1907. A "retreat air" is a form popular with West-coast Scotland fiddlers, according to Alastair Hardie (1992). "Struay", explains Nigel Gatherer, is a hill-road above the Dornoch Firth, near Inverness.

Source for notated version: West-coast Scottish fiddler Angus Grant of Fort William (Scotland) [Hardie].

Printed sources: Hardie (Caledonian Companion), 1992; p. 120. Martin (Ceol na Fidhle), vol. 4, 1991; p. 26.

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