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MERRY LADS OF NEW PITSLIGO. Scottish, Strathspey. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Composed by Aberdeenshire fiddler-composer Biography:Alexander Walker (b. 1819). New Pitsligo [1] is a small village in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, founded by William Forbes of Monymusk.

Old postcard of New Pitsligo.



Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Walker (A Collection of Strathspeys, Reels, Marches, &c.), 1866; No. 9, p. 4.

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