Annotation:Hen Wife's Daughter

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X:1 % T:Nighan Caillach nan Cearc T:Hen Wife’s Daughter, The M:C L:1/8 R:Reel B:William Gunn - The Caledonian Repository of Music B:Adapted for the Bagpipes (Glasgow, 1848, p. 29) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:Amix e|AAag a2 ef|geae g2 de|g2 ea c<caf|ecdB AAA:| |:a|c<ccA d2 dB|c<ccA BGGa|c<ccA d2 dB|ecdB AAA:|]



HEN WIFE'S DAUGHTER, THE (Nighan Caillach nan Cearc). AKA and see "Ballater Rant." Scottish, Pipe Reel (whole time). A Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody appears under the title "Ballater Rant" in Pipe Major William Ross's Collection of Pipe Music (1869).

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Printed sources : - William Gunn (The Caledonian Repository of Music Adapted for the Bagpipes), Glasgow, 1848; p. 29.

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