Annotation:Loch a Chumhainn

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LOCH A CHUMHAINN. Scottish, Slow Air (6/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune was composed by accordion player and pianist Hamish Johnston (b. Glasgow, 1922), named for Loch a chumhainn (Loch Cuin), a sea loch at the north end of the Island of Mull, where he retired to.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Neil (The Scots Fiddle), 1991; No. 148, p. 190 (includes 2nd fiddle harmony part).

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