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JEANETTE (MACDONALD) BEATON'S JIG. Canadian, Jig. Canada, Cape Breton. F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB'. Composed by Cape Breton dancer, piano player and accompanist Margaret MacPhee (b. 1913, Broad Cove Banks, Inverness County). MacPhee is the mother of Doug MacPhee, also a pianist much sought-after as an accompanist, and a musician and composer in his own right.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Cook (Night in the Kitchen Collection), 1996; p. 40.

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