Yes Greg, its the tune of a scottish trad song (can't remember the words right now). When The Piano came out, Michael Nyman said that he wanted it to sound like Holly Hunters character in the film was improvising the music as she went along. As shes supposed to be Scottish and a self-taught pianist he reasoned that her main influences/source material for the music would have been snippets of trad Scottish tunes all mixed up together.
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