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MACKENZIE HIGHLANDERS. AKA - "McKenzie Highlanders." Scottish, March (2/4 time). A Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB'. The march is associated with several Scottish regiments; used for dress for parade by the 78th Highlanders, and, in 1912, for the 1st and 2nd Battalions of the Seaforth Highlanders. It was used for officer's dress for parade for the Queens Own Highlanders.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Kerr (Caledonian Collection). Ross (Logan's Complete Tutor), 1955; p. 10. Martin (Ceol na Fidhle, vol. 4), 1991; p. 34. Moffat (Dance Music of the North), 1908; No. 50, p. 22. Ross (Collection [of] Pipe Music), 1885; no. 79, p. 143 (as "MacKenzie's Highlanders"). Logie & Mathieson (Standard Settings of Pipe Music of the Seaforth Highlanders), 1936.

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