Alan Wilson’s fifty-three comments

This setting of PM Carrigan's pipe reel came up in the Boston area, as being played frequently at the Canadian American club session. more…

A strathspey in F major by J. Scott Skinner, in the Miller o' Hirn collection. more…

This slow strathspey in B flat, is by J. Scott Skinner. more…

This driving reel in F is the last tune in a set I learned from Barbara McOwen. more…

This is a retreat march (quarter note = 86) - a pipe tune by George Stewart McLennan 1883-1927. more…

This pipe march is by George MacEachran MacIntyre of Campbeltown, Scotland, who served with the 8th Argylls and was taken prisoner at St. Valery in 1940. more…

Here is the A major version as found in "Buncrana to Baleshare" by Simon Bradley. I bought the book from Simon at the 10th Anniversary SHISSF (Southern Hemisphere International School of Scottish Fiddle) where he was teaching with Anna-Wendy Stevenson.... more…

Kinrara is on The Session at (https://thesession.org/tunes/6801#setting33288) more…

This unusual 6/8 tune is from Unst in the Shetland Islands. It was taught by Abby Newton at the Boston Harbor Scottish Fiddle School, August 2007, along with the slow reel Kinrara (https://thesession.org/tunes/14860#setting33287). more…

Abby Newton taught this tune as a slow reel at the Boston Harbor Scottish Fiddle School, August 2007. more…