Annotation:Pining Maid (The)
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PINING MAID, THE. Irish, Reel. D Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. An odd but interesting mix of tonalities from A minor to D Dorian.
Source for notated version: "Copied...from a MS. evidently written by a skilled fiddler with much musical taste, from Limerick, but the name of the writer nowhere appears" (Joyce).
Printed sources: Joyce (Old Irish Folk Music and Songs), 1909; No. 355, pp. 163-164.
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