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'''LADY ELGIN'S COURTSHIP'''. AKA and see "[[Lady Madelina Sinclair's Birthday]]." Scottish, Reel. B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABB. The tune appears as "Lady Elgin's Courtship" only in the American Ryan/Cole publications, and is not to be found under this title in Scottish collections. It has been suggested (by Nigel Gatherer, for one) that this melody resembles "[[Boyne Hunt]]."  
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''Printed sources'': Cole ('''1000 Fiddle Tunes'''), 1940; p. 33. '''Ryan's Mammoth Collection''', 1883; p. 60.
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LADY ELGIN'S COURTSHIP. AKA and see "Lady Madelina Sinclair's Birthday," "Lady Madelina Palmer." Scottish, Reel. B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABB. The tune appears as "Lady Elgin's Courtship" only in the American Ryan/Cole publications, and is not to be found under this title in Scottish collections. However, the tune was originally composed by famed Aberdeenshire fiddler-composer William Marshall as "Lady Madelina Sinclair's Birthday," named for the 2nd daughter of the 4th Duke and Duchess of Gordon. It was re-set as a strathsepy and renamed "Lady Madelina Palmer's Strathspey (1)" when the widowed Madelina remarried. Compare also with the popular Irish reel "Boyne Hunt (1)."


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Printed sources : - Cole (1000 Fiddle Tunes), 1940; p. 33. Ryan's Mammoth Collection, 1883; p. 60.






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