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'''MISS STEWART OF FOSS' REEL.''' Scottish, Reel (whole time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Composed by fiddler-composer [[biography:Duncan McKercher]], the "Dunkeld Paganini." Speculatively, McKercher's 'Miss Stewart of Foss' may have been Margaret (1809-1836), daughter of Joseph Stewart Menzies, Esq. of Foss, Perthshire, who, in Edinburgh in 1833 married the Rev. A.R. Irvine, minister of of Blair Atholl 1843-1867. McKercher also composed "[[Mr. Alexander Irvine's Strathspey]]" and thus may have composed a tune for each of the couple. Margaret died young, at age 26. The couple had one daughter.
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''Printed sources'': Duncan McKercher ('''A Collection of Original Stathspeys and Reels'''), Edinburgh, 1824; p. 3.
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