Annotation:Ness Side
X:1 T:Ness Side M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel B:Robert Ross – Choice Collection of Scots Reels or Country Dances B:& Strathspeys (Edinburgh, 1780, No. 5) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:A A|(EFA)(c BA)FA|(EFA)(c dB)cA|(Bc) ac (B>AF)f|ecac A/A/A A:| |:f|eaca BAFf|eaca eaca|dbca|dbca BAFf|ecac A/A/A A:|]
NESS SIDE. Scottish, Reel (cut time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Ness Side = Loch Ness-side. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest printing of this tune in Robert Ross's 1780 collection (p. 5).