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SCOTCH COVE. AKA and see “Jimmy MacKinnon of Smelt Brook.” Canadian, Jig (6/8 time). Canada, Cape Breton. G Mixolydian/Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB (Welling): AA’BB’ (Cranford). Composed by Cape Breton fiddler Winston Fitzgerald.

Additional notes

Source for notated version: - Winston Fitzgerald (1914-1987, Cape Breton) [Cranford].

Printed sources : - Cranford (Winston Fitzgerald), 1997; No. 201, p. 78. Welling (Welling’s Harford Tune Book), 1976; p. 25 (appears as 2nd tune of “Scotch Cove Medley”).

Recorded sources: -Breton Books and Records BOC 1HO, Winston “Scotty” Fitzgerald - “Classic Cuts” (reissue of Celtic Records CX 44).



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