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SPENCE COURT HORNPIPE. Shetland, Hornpipe. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Composed by Shetland fiddler Magnus Sutherland in 1919. Sutherland was a music teacher,violinist and photographer in Lerwick.

The Lerwick String Band c. 1906. Magnus Sutherland is standing, second from the right [1] [Shetland Museum and Archives]



Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Anderson & Georgeson (Da Mirrie Dancers), 1970; p. 28.

Recorded sources:




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