View source for Annotation:Mrs. Ramsay (of Invernettie Lodge's) Strathspey

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|f_annotation='''MRS. RAMSAY (OF INVERNETTIE LODGE'S) STRATHSPEY.'''  Scottish, Strathspey (cut time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. "Mrs. Ramsay (of Invernettie Lodge's) Strathspey" was composed by John Morison (1772-1848), a fiddler and, for a time, organist at St. Peter's Chapel, Peterhead.  Morison was from Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, the easternmost point of Scotland and a port town on the North Sea.  He had a small fiddle band for playing dances, but he supported himself, as many musicians did, with diversification.  Alburger notes he also organized balls and ran a ship's chandlery; he also tuned pianos and organs and copied out music, but eventually he went bankrupt (at least once).  Morison published two collections; the first around 1797 and the second in 1815. 
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Invernettie Lodge was a smaller property near the town of Peterhead, Aberdeenshire; the South Division of Invernettie was owned by Mrs. Ramsay (whose name appears on the tax rolls).   Mrs. Ramsay died in 1821. 
|f_printed_sources=John Morison ('''A Collection of New Strathspey Reels, with a few favourite Marches'''), Edinburgh, c. 1797; No. 17.
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