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Ashland Breakdown

Ask a Child

Aurora

Bajo la Sombra de un Pino

Balmoral Castle

Banish Misfortune

Basara

Battle Ho!

Bella Ciao

Belnord Swing

Bonaparte's Retreat

Bottle Of Vodka, Twenty Marlboro Reds And £50 Cashback, Please, A

Brenda Stubbert's

Bung Your Eye

Captain Campbell

Captain Kelly

Carrowroe Jig / Port Na-Ceathrún Rua

Carsten's Caravan

Cattle In The Cane

Cautious Flight

Climbing Silver Mountain

Concerteen in F Major

Culloden Day / Inverness Gathering

Da Full Rigged Ship

Da New Rigged Ship

Daly's Reel

Definitely Undefinable

Determination Rag

Diger Jankes Vals (SvL Medelpad 85)

Do You Want Any More?

Do Your Own House Cleaning

Dogs on Saturn

Dospatsko Choro

Drowsy Maggie

Drummond Castle

Ducks in the Pond

Dunse Castle

Dwyer's Reel / Ríl Uí Dhuibhir

Eibhlí Gheal Chiúin Ní Chearbhaill

Eine Kleine Nachtmusik - Allegro

El Choclo

Eleven Thirteen

Elizabeth Kelly's Delight - Aoibhneas Eilis Ni Cheallaigh

Engelska efter Ernst Abrahamson

Etude #59 - Compagnoli Method for Violin Vol.1

Ever Onward

Expectation Waltz

Fairy Dance Reel, The

Falling From the Moon

Fandango de Leida

Far Away I Have a Home

Far Away Lands

Far From Home

Farewell To Brentwood

Fascination

Faye Herbert

Felix The Wrestler

Fiddle Cleaning Rag

Fiddle Etude

Fiddle Sonata - 1st Movement - The Dance of Hecate

Fiddle Sonata - 2nd Movement - The Crossroads of Time

Fiddle Sonata - 3rd Movement - Heracle's Triumph

Fiorillo No. 32

Fischiettando

Fisher's Hornpipe

Five Alive

Forest of Garth

Forest of my Dreams (Paddy on the Turnpike for classical guitar)

Four Seasons

Four Twenty Brass Quintet [playback]

Fum, Fum, Fum

Fyrspannian

Gallagher's Frolics

Galway Bay

Gānglāt frān Nās finnskogar, efter Vāsterfalls Olle (SvL Dalarna 911)

Garifalia

Garrett Barry's

Garthland's

Go To the Devil and Shake Yourself

Green Grow the Rushes O'

Gusty's Frolics - Súgradh Aibhistín

Haste to the Wedding

Have You Noticed the Time?

Hebrew Melody

Hector the Hero

Hemariotiko

Hepaticas

Hoppvals efter Per Viksten

Horse's Branle (or Brawl)

Humours of Carrigaholt / Plearácha Carraig An Chobhaltaigh

I Court the Fair Maidens/Bímíd ag ól is ag pógadh na mBan

I'm Going Away

I'm Yours

J.S. Bach's Sonata No. 3 in A minor for Solo Violin - Allegro (1)

J.S. Bach's Sonata No. 3 in A minor for Solo Violin - Allegro (2)

J.S. Bach's Sonata No. 3 in A minor for Solo Violin - Grave

Jaded Fury

Jämtlandsvalsen (SvL Jämtland 225)

John McAlpin

Johnny Cope

Jolla #792

Jolla #795

Kilavel Jig

Kincaldrum

King Of The Fairies / Rí na Sideog

King Robert the Bruce

Kolomeike (Kolomyika)

Kosotchok

La Manfredina / La Rotta

La Paloma

Lady Ann Stewart's Strathspey

Lady Catherine Stewart | Haughs o' Cromdale

Lamento di Tristan / La Rotta

Lanigan's Ball

Lawson's Hornpipe

Lilikin's Rag

Loch Leven Castle

Lost Wages

Mallow

March of the Sidhe

Marquis of Huntly

Mary Walker

Master Crowley's

Mercurial Tendencies

Middle West Meddledy

Milltown Maid Reel

Minstrelsy

Moll Roe in the Morning / Mall Rua

Money Musk

Monte Igueldo

Morning on the River

Morrison's Jig

Mother's Day

My Brother Tom

My Former Wife

Mystical Journey

New Orleans Waltz

Niel Gow's Lament For His Second Wife

Nine Rings for the Mortal Men Doomed to Die

No Pity Waltz

No Worries

O'Callaghan's Hornpipe / Cornphíopa Uí Chealláin

Ode to Jupiter

Off to California

Olympia Waltz

Paddy on the Turnpike

Palmer's Gate

Palomita

Palomita TEST123

Perdika

Polska efter Lapp Nils (SvL Jämtland 186)

Polska in A from Ragunda (SvL Jämtland 301)

Polska in Am efter Arvid Brännlund (SvL Jämtland 638)

Polska in Am efter Måns Karlsson (SvL Jämtland 333)

Polska in Cm efter Nils Andersson (SvL Skåne nr. 356)

Polska in D efter Anders Olsson (SvL Jämtland 340)

Polska in D efter Hannises Erik (SvL Dalarna 913)

Polska in D efter kantor Forsgren (SvL Jämtland 265)

Polska in Dm av en spelman Karl Jansson frän Dalarna (SvL Uppland 90)

Polska in Dm efter Lapp Nils (SvL Jämtland 441)

Polska in Dm efter Mäns Karlsson (SvL Jämtland 332)

Polska in Dm efter Måns Karlsson, Myssjö, Jämtland #331

Polska in Dm från Mattmar (SvL Jämtland 330)

Polska in F efter kantor Forsgren (SvL Jämtland 262)

Polska in Gm (SvL Jämtland 497)

Polska in Gm efter Nils Andersson (SvL Jämtland 502)

Polska in Gm/G efter Lapp Nils version by Munter Johans (SvL Jämtland 206)

Poor But Happy At 53

Poz a Saver Mi Ven Et Cres Que Chantar

Prince Charles Farewell to Scotland

Princess Royal,The

Queryous Conundrum

Rachel

Rachel Rae / The Moving Bogs

Rancho Alegre

Redican's Mother

Reginella

Relaxation Rag

Sally Gardens (reel) - Ná Garranta Sailí

Salterello

Saturn's Frolic

Schottisch efter Munter Johan (SvL Jämtland 228)

Scotch Mary

Scott Skinner's Compliments to Dr. MacDonald

Senza Pieta (No Mercy)

Seven Seas Seven

Sheepshead Bay Hornpipe

Sher

Sherriff Muir

Sí Beag Sí Mór

Sincerity Waltz

Slippery Jig

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Transcriber: Imnotirish

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Type: Reel

Modality: Dmixolydian

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Why Fight It?

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