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Chalmers Wood and his Scottish Dance Orchestra

The Glasgow Highlanders

Glasgow Highlanders and Jenny’s Bawbee, Strathspeys

Columbia 1934, Matrix number: WSC92-1 Catalog number: DB 1278

Petronella

Petronella, Chester Castle and The Persian Dance, Strathspeys

Columbia 1934, Matrix number: WSC93-1 Catalog number: DB 1278

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RareTunes was started in 2006 by volunteers Stuart Eydmann and the late Derek Hoy who saw the need for such an archive and wished to demonstrate its potential. It remains an independent, not for profit project undertaken without external funding. This version was launched in Spring 2016.

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In modern Scots, 'rare' is applied to something special or particularly enjoyable. The Dictionary of the Scots Language quotes Ian Rankin in 'Black and Blue' (1999) writing: "Jings, but it was rare to be home."

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