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X:1 T:Tigh Eachainn T:Auld Road to Towie M:C L:1/8 R:Strathspey B:Stewart-Robertson – The Athole Collection (1884) K:G g|e/e/e e>g e2 d>c|B>AA>G B>AA>B|d/d/d d>g e2 d>g|B<G G>A B<GG:| d|g>ab>g a>eg>B|B>AA>G B>AA>B|d/d/d d>g e2 d>g|B<G G>A B<G G>d| g>ab>g a>eg>B|B>AA>G B>AA>B|d>eg>d e<gd<g|B<G G>A B<GG||



TIGH EACH(A)INN (Hector's Home). AKA - "Auld Road to Towie (The)." Scottish, Strathspey (whole time). E Minor ('A' part) & G Major ('B' part). Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB (Athole, Skye): AABB' (Kerr). The melody appears as “Auld Road to Towie” in Peter Milne’s Middleton’s Selection (1870).


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Printed sources : - Kerr (Merry Melodies, vol. 2), c. 1880’s; No. 136, p. 16. MacDonald (The Skye Collection), 1887; p. 85. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; p. 179.






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