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'''THE ANDROMEDA, WITH VARIATIONS.''' Scottish, Jig (6/8 time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABCCDEEF. The tune was published by the Edinburgh music publishing firm of Nathaniel Gow and William Shepherd in a volume entitled '''A Collection of Entirely Original Strathspey Reels, Marches, Quick Steps &c.''' (1797, p. 19), "by Ladies resident in a remote part of the Highlands of Scotland, as corrected by Nath. Gow." Unfortunately, the composers names are not given.  The Leeds antiquarian Frank Kidson (1854–1926) penciled a note in his copy of the volume that the composers were, or included, “the Misses Whyte,” and modern researcher Charles Gore thinks “the Misses Whyte” may possibly be a Miss White and a Miss Brocky, of Morayshire, east Highlands.
'''THE ANDROMEDA, WITH VARIATIONS.''' Scottish, Jig (6/8 time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABCCDEEF. The tune was published by the Edinburgh music publishing firm of Nathaniel Gow and William Shepherd in a volume entitled '''A Collection of Entirely Original Strathspey Reels, Marches, Quick Steps &c.''' (1797, p. 19), "by Ladies resident in a remote part of the Highlands of Scotland, as corrected by Nath. Gow." Unfortunately, the composers names are not given.  The Leeds antiquarian Frank Kidson (1854–1926) penciled a note in his copy of the volume that the composers were, or included, “the Misses Whyte,” and modern researcher Charles Gore thinks “the Misses Whyte” may possibly be a Miss White and a Miss Brocky, of Morayshire, east Highlands.

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THE ANDROMEDA, WITH VARIATIONS. Scottish, Jig (6/8 time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABCCDEEF. The tune was published by the Edinburgh music publishing firm of Nathaniel Gow and William Shepherd in a volume entitled A Collection of Entirely Original Strathspey Reels, Marches, Quick Steps &c. (1797, p. 19), "by Ladies resident in a remote part of the Highlands of Scotland, as corrected by Nath. Gow." Unfortunately, the composers names are not given. The Leeds antiquarian Frank Kidson (1854–1926) penciled a note in his copy of the volume that the composers were, or included, “the Misses Whyte,” and modern researcher Charles Gore thinks “the Misses Whyte” may possibly be a Miss White and a Miss Brocky, of Morayshire, east Highlands.

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