Annotation:Sandy Gow's Three Pints

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SANDY GOW’S THREE PINTS. AKA - "Tri Peanndin Shanndi Ghou." Scottish, March (whole time). G Major (Dow): A Mixolydian (McLachlane). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody earliest appears in Perthshire fiddler-composer Daniel (sometimes Donald) Dow's A Collection of Ancient Scots Music for the Violin Harpsichord or German-Flute. Never before Printed, Consisting of Ports, Salutations, Marches or Pibrachs &c., printed in Edinburgh around 1775.

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Source for notated version: -

Printed sources : - John McLachlan (The Piper's Assistant - A new collection of marches, quicksteps, strathspeys, reels & jigs), 1854; No. 55, p. 31.

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