Annotation:Lord Arthur's Cairn

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LORD ARTHUR'S CAIRN. Scottish, Reel (cut time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Composed by Aberdeenshire fiddler-composer Biography:Alexander Walker (b. 1819). Lord Arthur's Cairn, or Lord Arthur's Hill, is a height southwest of Lumsden, west Aberdeenshire. At 1699 feet, it is the highest of the Correen Hills.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Walker (A Collection of Strathspeys, Reels, Marches, &c.), 1866; No. 165, p. 57.

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