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LOCH RUTHVEN (Loch Ruadhainn). Scottish, Strathspey. C Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. "Loch Ruthven [1], celebrated in this air, is as famous in Inverness-shire, for the sport it affords the angler, as Loch Erroch on the confines of Perthshire" (Fraser).

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Fraser (The Airs and Melodies Peculiar to the Highlands of Scotland and the Isles), 1816; No. 12, p. 5. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; p. 266.

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