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PRESTON PANS. Scottish, Reel. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB’. The title commemorates the one-sided battle in 1745 in which the Jacobite forces of Bonnie Prince Charlie routed the English led by General Sir John Cope.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Kerr (Merry Melodies, vol. 4), c. 1880's; No. 31, p. 6.

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