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McRORY'S BREEKS (Brigis Ic. Ruairi). Scottish, Pipe March and Jig. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune appears in Glasgow pipe-maker and pipe-teacher William Gunn's The Caledonian Repository of Music (p. 70), the first printing of which was in 1848. The collection was published in various editions until the early 20th century. It also appears in Pipe Major Donald MacLeod's Collection Volume 6.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Kerr (Merry Melodies, vol. 3), c. 1880; No. 268, p. 29. Gunn (The Caledonian Repository of Music), p. 70.

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