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HIGHLAND ROAD TO INVERNESS. AKA - "Druimuachdar." AKA and see "Druim Uachdair." Scottish, Pipe Reel. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. This tune (with peurt-a-beul words) "is another of the pipe-reels so often referred to. The words describe two foot passengers, overtaken by a frosty wind of such extreme cold, that they could scarcely preserve life by trotting to the measure of this air" (Fraser).


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Printed sources : - Emmerson (Rantin' Pipe and Tremblin' String), 1971; No. 45, p. 137. Fraser (The Airs and Melodies Peculiar to the Highlands of Scotland and the Isles), 1816/1874; No. 163, pp. 66-67.

Recorded sources : - Greentrax Recordings CDTRAX187, Jonnie Hardie - "The Captain's Collection" (1999).




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