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RING, THE. Shetland, Scottish; Quickstep, Country Dance Tune, Reel or Shetland Reel. Shetland, Whalsay. A Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest appearance of the tune in Neil Stewart's 1761 collection (p. 32).

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Printed sources : - McLachlan (The Piper's Assistant), 1854; No. 50, p. 28. Skillern (Skillern’s Twenty-Four Country Dances for the Year 1780), p. 5. Stewart (A Collection of the Newest and Best Reels or Country Dances), 1761; p. 32.

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