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LETHEN'S REEL. AKA and see "Bonnie Annie (3)." Scottish, Strathspey. A Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. John Glen (1891) found the earliest printing of the tune in biography:Angus Cumming's Collection of Strathspey or Old Highland Reels (1780, p. 19), but it was composed and published by Daniel Dow four years earlier as "Bonnie Annie (3)."
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Alburger (Scottish Fiddlers and Their Music), 1983; Ex. 51, p. 77. Cumming (Collection of Strathspey or Old Highland Reels), 1780; No. 58, pp. 19-20.
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