Nice! Because all of these flings sound like strathspeys, I decided to look around a bit and found this comment at The Session: "a fling is generally another name for a strathspey/highland, and its name comes from the playing of a strathspey for the dance of the ‘highland fling’ in scotland. a lot of these tunes with dotted notes, and scotch snap are turned into reels, and similarly reels turned into strathspeys in the course of the aural tradtition etc. # Posted by laura nesbit 20 years ago."
Nice! Because all of these flings sound like strathspeys, I decided to look around a bit and found this comment at The Session: "a fling is generally another name for a strathspey/highland, and its name comes from the playing of a strathspey for the dance of the ‘highland fling’ in scotland. a lot of these tunes with dotted notes, and scotch snap are turned into reels, and similarly reels turned into strathspeys in the course of the aural tradtition etc.
# Posted by laura nesbit 20 years ago."
Thanks for investigating!