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'''MRS. STEWART FRENICH OF FOSS'''.  Scottish, Reel. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Composed by Malcolm MacDonald, this tune first appears in his '''Collection of Strathspey Reels, vol. 1''', dedicated to Mrs. Baird of Newbyth.  
'''MRS. STEWART FRENICH OF FOSS'''.  AKA and see "[[Mrs. Bell's Strathspey]]." Scottish, Reel. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Composed by [[biography:Malcolm MacDonald]], this tune first appears in his '''Collection of Strathspey Reels, vol. 1''', dedicated to Mrs. Baird of Newbyth. The melody, set as a strathspey ("[[Mrs. Bell's Strathspey]]") appears in James Aird's '''Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 5''' (1801). 
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In 1882-4, Frances Groome's '''Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland''' [http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/22110] described Foss like this:
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''Foss, a hamlet and a quoad sacra parish in Dull parish, Perthshire. The hamlet stands near the right bank of the river Tummel,'' ''1½ mile WSW of the head of Loch Tummel, and 12 miles W of its post-town, Pitlochry. It has a fair on the second Tuesday of'' ''March, old style. Foss House, ¾ mile nearer the loch, is a seat of Sir Robert Menzies, Bart. of Castle-Menzies. The parish,'' ''constituted by ecclesiastical authority in 1830, by civil authority in 1845, is in the presbytery of Weem and synod of Perth'' ''and Stirling; its minister's stipend is £120. Pop. (1871) 270, (1881) 226.—Ord. Sur., sh. 55,1869.''
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''Printed sources'': MacDonald ('''Collection of Strathspey Reels, vol. 1'''), c. 1788; p. 12.
''Printed sources'': MacDonald ('''Collection of Strathspey Reels, vol. 1'''), c. 1788; p. 12.
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MRS. STEWART FRENICH OF FOSS. AKA and see "Mrs. Bell's Strathspey." Scottish, Reel. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Composed by biography:Malcolm MacDonald, this tune first appears in his Collection of Strathspey Reels, vol. 1, dedicated to Mrs. Baird of Newbyth. The melody, set as a strathspey ("Mrs. Bell's Strathspey") appears in James Aird's Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 5 (1801).

In 1882-4, Frances Groome's Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland [1] described Foss like this:

Foss, a hamlet and a quoad sacra parish in Dull parish, Perthshire. The hamlet stands near the right bank of the river Tummel, 1½ mile WSW of the head of Loch Tummel, and 12 miles W of its post-town, Pitlochry. It has a fair on the second Tuesday of March, old style. Foss House, ¾ mile nearer the loch, is a seat of Sir Robert Menzies, Bart. of Castle-Menzies. The parish, constituted by ecclesiastical authority in 1830, by civil authority in 1845, is in the presbytery of Weem and synod of Perth and Stirling; its minister's stipend is £120. Pop. (1871) 270, (1881) 226.—Ord. Sur., sh. 55,1869.


Source for notated version:

Printed sources: MacDonald (Collection of Strathspey Reels, vol. 1), c. 1788; p. 12.

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