I suspect this
tune was composed by a fiddler who also played the pipes
- or else by a fiddler who lived in a community where the
pipes were frequently heard. While researching possible
material for the Cape
Breton Highland
Collection, I
found the one in a couple of pipe books in settings
significantly differing from the fiddle versions I was
familiar with.
The earliest fiddle
source, Bremner (1757) included some of the piping
nuances which were removed in most of the 19th century
fiddle settings. For example in The Skye the range was
too wide for the pipes. Eventually I came up with this
fiddle-friendly composite.
Addenda - Found
in many books, rather than cause duplicatation I chose
not to include this setting in the Cape
Breton Scottish
Collection.
Instead it will likely be included as a 2nd setting in a
future digital edition of The
Skye Collection.