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Annotation:New Gun Reel
X:140 T:New Gun Reel N:A faithful version of the reel "Niel Gow." O:No 140 William Clarke of Feltwell Z:Transcribed by David Dolby 2010 M:4/4 L:1/16 N:First note in bar A4 could be G or A. K:G e2|dB3 g3d e2A2A2e2|dB3 g3d e4e2f2|(gfed) g2d2 e2A2A2f2|g3e d3BG4G2:| |:D2|GGG2 B2G2 A2E2E2A2|GGG2 B2d2 e3de3g|eg3 Bd3 e2A2A2f2|g3e d2B2G4||
NEW GUN REEL. AKA and see "Niel Gow," "Niel Gow's Strathspey (1)." Scottish, Reel (whole time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "New Gun Reel" was entered into the mid-19th century music manuscript collection of William Clarke, of Feltwell, Norfolk, East Anglia, who was perhaps a flute player. Clarke's title is a mishearing of "Niel Gow", a strathspey by Edinburgh musician and music publisher Duncan MacIntyre (also set as a reel).
