Annotation:Peadar's New Calf

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PEADER’S NEW CALF. Irish, Reel. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Composed by Falmouth, Massachusetts, musician and writer Bill Black, in honor of a West Clare flute player who left a session Black was playing in to return home to attend the birthing, only to return later.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Black (Music’s the Very Best Thing), 1996; No. 346, p. 184.

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