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Annotation:Niel Gow's Reel (2)
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X:1 T:Neil [sic] Gow's (Reel) [2] M:C L:1/8 R:Reel K:A f|e>cae fBBf|e>ca>e f2 fg|a/g/f/e/ ae fBBg|a/f/e/c/ A2A:| |:E|A>AcA B>FF>B|A>Bce a>efa|eace fdBg|a>fec A2A:|
NIEL GOW'S REEL [2]. AKA - "Neil Gow's Second Wife again." AKA and see "Niel Gow." Scottish, Reel. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody appears in Gow's Complete Repository, vol. 2 (1810). The reel appears in the 1817 music manuscript collection of Patrick McGahon, a scribe of Irish language literature who lived in Dungooley, County Louth, on the Armagh border. It was entered under the title "Neil Gow's Second Wife again" in his ms.
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