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The Old Copperplate

Traditional

Style
Celtic
Tradition
Irish
Form
Reel
Key
A Dorian
Level
3
Played on
Fiddle and Mandolin

In the public domain. Source

Music

90bpm

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History

Despite the "Old" in its name, no printing or recording of this A dorian reel has been found from before 1974, when Bulmer and Sharpley included it in Music from Ireland. Which of the two Copperplate reels is the old one and which the new is a regular source of confusion; this one is often played after the G major "Copperplate," and the pair is called "The Copperplates."

Comhaltas put it in its Foinn Seisiún session collection in 2003, and Cape Breton fiddler Brenda Stubbert recorded it on House Sessions in 1992.

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