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MOUNT BATTOCK. Scottish, Strathspey. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Composed by Abderdeenshire fiddler-composer biography:Alexander Walker b. 1819. Mount Battock is a 2552 foot high peak in the southern Grampians range, located on the border between Angus and Aberdeenshire to the north of Glen Esk.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Walker (A Collection of Strathspeys, Reels, Marches, &c), 1866; No. 91, p. 32.

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