> This is seen at least as far west as Romania. I know of some Norwegian tunes that behave just like that too. The Gorrlaus tunes (where the G string of the fiddle is tuned down to F) have F in the lower octave and a "nearly" sharp f in the upper octave. For example the tune "Norafjells".
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