The Braes Of Castle Grant

polka

Key signature: Amajor

Submitted on November 1st 2009 by No Cause For Alarm.

This tune has been added to 8 tunebooks.

Also known as Braes Of Castle Grant.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

• A Tune For Bill by Banchory Strathspey And Reel Society
• Hubcaps And Potholes by Rachel Hair
• Letting Go... by Katherine Irwin Thomas
• Portrait Of A Scottish Fiddler by Alasdair Fraser
• Quare Imagination by Liz Doherty
• The Clan MacColl by Angus MacColl
• Waves Of Rush by Tabache

X: 1
T: Braes Of Castle Grant, The
M: 2/4
L: 1/8
R: polka
K: Amaj
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aa/>e/ f/>e/c/<e/ | f/>e/f/>d/ c/<e/a/>c/ | A/>B/c/<a/ c/<e/B/>c/ | AA/<A/ Ac/<e/ |
aa/>e/ f/>e/c/<e/ | f/>e/f/>d/ c/<e/a/>c/ | A/>d/f/>d/ c/>d/e/>c/ | B/>A/B/<c/ B/<a/e/>d/ |
c/>d/c/<B/ A/>B/c/<e/ | f/>g/a/>g/ f/>e/f/<a/ | A/>B/c/<a/ c/<e/B/>c/ | AA/<A/ A2 ||

The Braes of Castle Grant

A Scottish 2/4 march composed by Duncan MacDonald and P/M GS MacLennan. I believe that MacLennan wrote the 2nd and 3rd parts.

I was initially surprised that this was not already on here as it is a lovely tune but then it came to putting it into ABCs - a headache to say the least, particularly given the default note length on this site of 1/8. It is really a shame that I apparently have nothing better to do on a Saturday night, and Halloween to boot!!

It is a lovely tune though and the 4th part would have to be my favourite.

# Posted on November 1st 2009 by No Cause For Alarm

Being a pipe tune you could play it with G naturals but most people would play it with the G#s as it sounds so much better. Speaking to a couple of fiddler friends of mine a few years ago one said that this was one of the few pipe tunes that he would play G#s on.

# Posted on November 1st 2009 by No Cause For Alarm

There is a lovely version of this tune on Rachel Hair's album Hubcaps and Potholes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yycp8WgGHvU

Angus R Grant (jnr):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrfzAS_YNSQ

# Posted on November 1st 2009 by No Cause For Alarm