| Title | The Banks of Allan | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alternate titles | The Banks of Allen Water Swallows in Flight The Tailor's Thimble | |||
| Composer | Traditional Scottish | |||
| Instrumentation | Flute solo |     | ||
| Key | D major | |||
| Range | D4–B5 | |||
| Time signature | 6/8 | |||
| Tempo | 96 BPM | |||
| Performance time | 0:40 | |||
| Difficulty level | easy | |||
| Download printable score | PDF Sheet Music (47 kB) (preview) | |||
| Download audio tracks | MIDI (change tempo/key) MP3 (338 kB) | |||
| Date added | 2022-05-28 | |||
| Last updated | 2022-05-28 | |||
| Download popularity index |    0.3 (not so popular) | |||
| Categories |
Jigs, Traditional/Folk | |||
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The earliest known appearance of this tune is in a collection published by musician Thomas Calvert in 1799 in Kelso, Scottish Borders.
The river Allan is a tributary of the Firth of Forth that flows through Perthshire and Stirlingshire before it empties into the Forth near the town of Bridge of Allan.
