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REEL OF KILWINNING, THE. English, Reel. England, Northumberland. E Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCC. Kilwinning is a town in North Ayrshire, Scotland, on the River Garnock north of Irvine, about 21 miles south of Glasgow. See also the similar first strain of "Drunken Piper (1)."

Source for notated version: William Vickers' 1770 Northumbrian music collection [1] [Seattle].

Printed sources: Seattle (Great Northern/William Vickers), 1987, Part 2; No. 480.

Recorded sources: Bogner Records, Rowan Tree Hill - "Northumbrian & Irish Folk - Rowan Tree Hill" (2010).




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