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HUGH GILMOUR'S LAMENT FOR NIEL GOW. AKA - "Lament for Niel Gow." Scottish, Slow Air (whole time). G Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Composed by Ayrshire fiddler-composer biography:Hugh Gilmour (see also his jig "Queen (The)" and reel "Queen's Triumph (The)").

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Carlin (The Gow Collection), 1986; No. 108. Gow (Fifth Collection of Strathspey Reels), 1809; p. 6.

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