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Quotation dates: 1844
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BIRNIEBOUZLE, n. A pipe and violin tune, also known as "Braes of Tullymet." See Middleton's Selection of Strathspeys, Reels, etc., for the Violin, ed. Peter Milne, Violinist, Edinburgh (late of Aberdeen) 33 and Hamilton's Universal Tune Book (1844) I. 61. (A.T.M.)Mearns 1844 W. Jamie Muse of the Mearns 102:
He got them tun'd wi' thraw and touzle, And gar'd them dance to Birniebouzle.
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