X: 032038
T: TOSS THE FEATHERS (V)
O: Losch, V, 1930s, B.
R: reel, march
B: DTFMTF: Sam Bayard's "Dance to the Fiddle, March to the Fife" p.32 #37 (and top 2 staffs of p.33)
Z: 2026 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu>
N: The book has 2 identical endings for the 2nd part, plus the extra half-note delay before the "D.C."
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: Edor
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E4 |: BB/B/B2 B2B2 | EFBF AFED | {F}BB/B/ B2 B3B | BBef ge^d2 | e3e e2z2 :|
|: e2ef "^#"ge beeg | fedf af{ef}gf | e2 {ef}"^#"ge beeg | {fg}fedf e3e :| e2"_D.C."z2 |]
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% % Our title is the usual one for an Irish reel of which Losch's is a somewhat deteriorated set. Other
% % versions are in Petrie Stan, No. 462; O'Neill MI, Nos. 1224, 1225; Roche, I, No. 147; Feis Ceoil,
% % p. 4, No. 9, a sort of link between the Petrie version and ours. McCullough, No. 10, also seems to
% % be a set, as do Breathnach 1963, Nos. 195 and 198, and Reavy, No. 53. Additional sets of this tune
% % (whether or not with the "Feathers" title) appear in O'Neill WS, No. 317; Mitchell Clancy, No.
% % 28; and Feldman, p. 168, 2nd. Pieces that look and sound like derivatives are Feldman, pp. 105,
% % 1st, and 166.
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