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REEL [4]. Scottish, Pipe Reel (whole time). A Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. This untitled bagpipe reel reel appears in the first volume of Celtic Melodies, Being a Collection of Original Slow Highland Airs, Pipe-Reels, and Cainntearachd, published about 1830 in Edinburgh, with pieces "Selected and Arranged by a Highlander." The anonymous editor(s) are thought to be George Farquhar Graham, with some settings contributed by Finlay Dunn.

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Printed sources: Graham & Dunn (Celtic Melodies, Being a Collection of Original Slow Highland Airs, Pipe-Reels, and Cainntearachd, vol. 1), c. 1830; No. 3, p. 2.

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