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Tune Annotations:	'''MR. F. CAMPBELL ARDMORE'S REEL'''. Scottish, Reel (cut time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. "Mr. F. Campbell Ardmore's Reel" was composed by Islay fiddler-composer [[biography:Alexander Mackay]] (born 1775) for one of the children of Archibald and Helen Campbell of Ardmore, Islay. Farquhard Campbell (1810-1831) was a boy when Mackay composed this tune and died a young man some ten years after Mackay published his collection. Mackay composed tunes for the entire family. See note for "[[annotation: Mr. Archibald Campbell Ardmore's Reel]]" for more on Mackay and the Campbells.
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Printed sources:	Alexander Mackay ('''A Collection of Reels, Strathspeys and Slow Tunes'''), Glasgow, c. 1822; p. 21.
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