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LORD KITCHENER'S PIPES. Irish, Jig. D Mixolydian ('A' part) & D Major ('B' part). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Lord Kitchener was chief of the British army before and during World War I, and was responsible for its transition from a Victorian to a modern army.

Lord Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl of Kitchener of Khartoum.



Source for notated version: fiddler Martin Mulvihill (Co. Limerick/the Bronx) [Black].

Printed sources: Black (Music's the Very Best Thing), 1996; No. 323, p. 173.

Recorded sources: Green Linnet CSIF 1012, Martin Mulvihill with Mick Moloney - "Traditional Irish Fiddling from County Limerick" (1978)




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