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fiddlerwoman
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Traditional Celtic
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Beverley Conrad
» label: unsigned
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Hector the Hero
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Played on fiddle and octave fiddle, this duet is a Scottish lament composed for the fallen hero. Luke plays one note on the octave fiddle the first time through this song. The octave fiddle is tuned below a viola and above a cello.
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Arranged by Conrad and Glick
Beverley Conrad and Luke Glick
The Miners Jig
Mon Oct 22, 2007
World : Traditional Celtic
Beverley Conrad and Luke Glick
The Miners Jig
Mon Oct 22, 2007
World : Traditional Celtic
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» highest in charts: # 899 (60,189 songs currently listed in World)
» highest in sub-genre: # 58 (1,924 songs currently listed in World > Traditional Celtic)
» highest in sub-genre: # 58 (1,924 songs currently listed in World > Traditional Celtic)
About the song
Hector the Hero was written as a lament and a tribute by Scottish composer James Scott Skinner in 1903 for a friend, Major General Hector MacDonald, who committed suicide on account of illness and rumors of being homosexual.