This tune may well be a strathspey converted to reel tempo. The older generation of fiddlers played the tune with the instrument in the tuning known as "high bass & counter" (AEAE). Notation for the version played here by Lem Jay is in The Fiddle Music of Prince Edward Island.
Kitty at the Well
Kind of Tune
reel
Tune Selections
| Kitty at the Well (from 78s) | Musician: Lem Jay | Unaccompanied | Eastern Queens | info |
| Big John MacNeil / Kitty at the Well | Musician: Joe Kearney, Recordist: Ken Perlman | Accompanied by: Gerard Murphy, gtr | South Kings | info |