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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jack Campin
> Sent: 17 October 2002 01:22
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> Subject: Re: [scots-l] Re: Shetland Fiddler, The
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> >> This tune also appears in Jerry Holland's Collection of Fiddle Tunes.
> >> According to a footnote there, the tune first appeared in a pipe
> >> setting in "The Edcath Collection" Vol. 1, 1954 by Donald Shaw
> >> Ramsay.
> > Ah that solves it.
>
> It doesn't. The Edcath tune is in D (as it has to be to be playable
> on the pipes), whereas both "The Hawk" and the currently-played
> version of "The Shetland Fiddler" are in E.
Currently played by whom? I've only ever heard it played in D. All the
recorded and notated versions I have are in D, as are all the versions
located by John Chambers ABC Tune Finder.
> It isn't very likely
> that somebody would hit upon the idea of transposing the tune that
> way and accidentally get back to the original, is it? - Skinner's
> version of the same tune ("The Spey in Spate") works just fine in D,
> it doesn't need to be in E for the fiddle.
I'd never noticed the resemblance between these two before, but I think
it's largely superficial - I don't think they're close enough to be
regarded as versions of the same tune.
Regards,
Ted
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