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WHYCOCOMAGH BAY. Canada, Reel. Canada, Cape Breton. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB: AAB' (Fitzgerlad): AA'BB' (MacQuarrie). One of the more popular compositions of biography:Gordon F. MacQuarrie, editor of the Cape Breton Collection of Scottish Melodies (1940).

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

Printed sources: Cranford (Winston Fitzgerald: A Collection of Fiddle Tunes), 1997; No. 137, p. 56. MacQuarrie (Cape Breton Collection of Scottish Melodies), 1940; p. 11.

Recorded sources:

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




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