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X:1 T:Swallow [1], The M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel B:William Vicker’s 1770 music manuscript collection (Northumberland, p. 8) B: http://www.farnearchive.com/show_images.asp?id=R0300805&image=1 Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:D A|FDFA Td2 dg|{g}fedf eEEB|FDFA d2g2|fdec dDD:| |:g|{g}fefg afdf|edef gBBg|{g}fefg abag|fdec dDD:|

SWALLOW [1], THE. AKA and see “Swallow Sloop of War.” Scottish, Reel (cut or whole time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB (Gow, Lowe, Skye): AABB' (Athole). John Glen (1891) finds the earliest printing of the tune in Edinburgh music publisher Neil Stewart's Collection of the Newest and Best Reels or Country Dances (1761, p. 36). It was also entered into the large 1770 music manuscript collection of Northumbrian musician William Vickers.

Additional notes

Printed sources : - Carlin (The Gow Collection), 1986; No. 527. Gow (Complete Repository, Part 2), 1802; p. 37. Joseph Lowe (Lowe's Collection of Reels, Strathspeys and Jigs, book 1), 1844–1845; p. 8. MacDonald (The Skye Collection), 1887; p. 63. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; p. 84.

Recorded sources : - Green Linnet GLCD 1127, “Martin Hayes” (1993).

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