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PRESERVING REEL, THE. Canadian, Reel. Canada Cape Breton. A Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Composed by Baddeck, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, fiddler, composer and instrument maker Otis Thomas [1].

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Cranford (Brenda Stubbert’s Collection of Fiddle Tunes), 1994; No. 28, p. 10.

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