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HARESHAW LINN. English, Strathspey. England, Northumberland. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCCDD. Composed by Robert Whinham (1814-1893), a musician, teacher, composer, dancing master and fiddler, originally from Morpeth. Dixon finds the title references a scenic waterfall in Northumberland, on the Hareshaw Burn, which flows into the North Tyne.

Source for notated version: the 19th century music manuscript of C. "Kit" Liddell [Dixon].

Printed sources: Dixon (Remember Me), 1995; p. 47.

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