Annotation:Flint and Fleerish

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FLINT AND FLEERISH. Scottish, Reel. F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Composed by the great Scots fiddler-composer J. Scott Skinner (1843-1927). Skinner explains that the flint and fleerish is "an old apparatus used for striking a light."

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Skinner (Harp and Claymore), 1904; p. 125.

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