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WATSON’S CLASS. Scottish, March or Strathspey. E Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. A melodic minor tune composed by biography:Niel Gow (1727–1807).

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Cranford (The Cape Breton Scottish Collection), 2013; no. 190, p. 68. Gow (Second Collection of Niel Gow's Reels), 1788; p. 10 (3rd edition).

Recorded sources: Rounder CD7059, Alex Francis MacKay – "Gaelic in the Bow" (2011).

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




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