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[[File:sirallanmaclean.jpg|350px|thumb|right|Sir Allan MacLean (1710-1783)]] | |||
The title may refer to Sir Allan MacLean [https://macleanhistory.org/chiefs/sir-allan-maclean-22nd-chief/] of Inchkenneth, a small island in the district of Mull in the Hebrides. When Dr. Johnson and Boswell visited the island is 1773, Sir Allan, formerly a Colonel in the British army, was chief of the clan and played host to the pair. "This island," recorded Dr. Johnson, "is about a mile long, and perhaps half-a-mile broad, remarkable for pleasantness and fertility. Its only inhabitants were Sir Allan MacLean and two young ladies, his daughters, with their servants. Romance does not often exhibit a scene that strikes the imagination more than this little desert, in those depths of western obscurity, occupied not by a gentleman and two ladies, of high birth, polished mannerss, and elegant conversation, who, in a habitation raised not very far above the ground, bur furnished with unexpected neatness and convenience, practised all the kindness of hospitality and refinement of courtesy." Sir Allen died in 1783. | The title may refer to Sir Allan MacLean [https://macleanhistory.org/chiefs/sir-allan-maclean-22nd-chief/] of Inchkenneth, a small island in the district of Mull in the Hebrides. When Dr. Johnson and Boswell visited the island is 1773, Sir Allan, formerly a Colonel in the British army, was chief of the clan and played host to the pair. "This island," recorded Dr. Johnson, "is about a mile long, and perhaps half-a-mile broad, remarkable for pleasantness and fertility. Its only inhabitants were Sir Allan MacLean and two young ladies, his daughters, with their servants. Romance does not often exhibit a scene that strikes the imagination more than this little desert, in those depths of western obscurity, occupied not by a gentleman and two ladies, of high birth, polished mannerss, and elegant conversation, who, in a habitation raised not very far above the ground, bur furnished with unexpected neatness and convenience, practised all the kindness of hospitality and refinement of courtesy." Sir Allen died in 1783. | ||
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<font color=red>''Printed sources''</font> : - Robert Ross ('''Choice Collection of Scots Reels or Country Dances & Strathspeys'''), Edinburgh, 1780; p. 37. | <font color=red>''Printed sources''</font> : - Robert Ross ('''Choice Collection of Scots Reels or Country Dances & Strathspeys'''), Edinburgh, 1780; p. 37. | ||
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Latest revision as of 21:03, 6 May 2019
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SIR ALLAN McLEAN'S REEL. Scottish, Strathspey (cut time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCCDD. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest printing of the tune in Robert Ross's 1780 collection (p. 37).
The title may refer to Sir Allan MacLean [1] of Inchkenneth, a small island in the district of Mull in the Hebrides. When Dr. Johnson and Boswell visited the island is 1773, Sir Allan, formerly a Colonel in the British army, was chief of the clan and played host to the pair. "This island," recorded Dr. Johnson, "is about a mile long, and perhaps half-a-mile broad, remarkable for pleasantness and fertility. Its only inhabitants were Sir Allan MacLean and two young ladies, his daughters, with their servants. Romance does not often exhibit a scene that strikes the imagination more than this little desert, in those depths of western obscurity, occupied not by a gentleman and two ladies, of high birth, polished mannerss, and elegant conversation, who, in a habitation raised not very far above the ground, bur furnished with unexpected neatness and convenience, practised all the kindness of hospitality and refinement of courtesy." Sir Allen died in 1783.