Unidentified Shotts & Dykehead Caledonia Pipe Band tune

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Does anyone recognize this tune? I have reconstructed this from memory so the notation is probably not strictly accurate. It comes from a set on an album (yes, an album) by the Shotts & Dykehead Caledonia Pipe Band. The album came out in about 1976, but this tune has been bouncing around in my head for the past 25 plus years. I don’t have the album anymore and haven’t had it for 20 or more years. Now I’ve learned to play it, so I’d like to find out its name so I can look it up and see if it’s anywhere close to how I’ve been humming and whistling it.

X: 1
T: Unknown tune, probably Scottish
L: 1/8
M: 6/8
K: D
|: ABA G2A| d2e faf| g2e f2d| efe cBA|
| ABA G2A| d2e ffg| afd efe|1 d2d dcB :|2 d3 def ||
|: gag gag| faf | efe efg| fed Bcd|
| ABA G2A| d2e ffg| afd efe|1 d3 def :|2 d3 d3 ||
D: Played by Schotts and Dychehead Caledonia Pipe Band in a recording from about 1976.
D: Played in a set with Old Rustic Bridge and Scotland the Brave, plus some other stuff I can’t remember as well.

Thanks.

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They have a Web site:

http://www.sdcpb.com/home_page.htm

You could email 'em and ask:

mailto:info@sdcpb.com

-Brett

3

It sounds like a jig version of “The Mucking of Geordie’s Byre,” which is often played by pipe bandy types as a 6/8 march.

Best, John

4

That’s it – thank you.

Yes, it was played as a march, but I haven’t fiddled with abc notation enough to note it properly as such. I’m glad I didn’t mangle the notation so badly that you couldn’t recognize it. (I’m also thrilled to death to know that this is a real tune and not something I hallucinated.)

Thanks again.