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SHELDON MACNEIL’S REEL. Canadian, Reel (cut time). Canada, Cape Breton. G Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune was composed by Raymond Ellis of Wycogomagh, Cape Breton, and has gathered some currency among modern Cape Breton fiddlers.

Additional notes

Source for notated version: -

Printed sources : - Cranford (The Cape Breton Fiddlers Collection),

Recorded sources: - Coovered Road Recordings, Carrie, Emma & Susan Dlutkowski - "Old Roads to New Places" (2015). Natalie MacMaster - "In My Hands". Cynthia MacLeod - "Crackerjack."

See also listing at:
Alan Snyder's Cape Breton Fiddle Recordings Index [1]



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