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LEM JAY'S FANCY. Canadian, Reel. Canada, Prince Edward Island. D Major. ADae tuning (fiddle). AABB.

Source for notated version: from a 78 RPM recording of Mt. Stewart, Queens County, PEI, fiddler Lem Jay, c. 1880-1960. Jay was the first fiddler to play live on Charlottetown, PEI, radio) [Perlman].

Printed sources: Perlman (The Fiddle Music of Prince Edward Island: Celtic and Acadian Tunes in Living Tradition), 1996; p. 68.

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