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|f_annotation='''MRS. GRAHAM OF BALGOWAN'S REEL'''. AKA - "Mrs. Graham of Ballgown's Reel." Scottish, Reel. D Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABCCD. Composed by [[biography:Daniel Dow]], first printed in his collection c. 1775 (p. 8). It also was printed by the Gows and by Kirkmichael, Perthshire, fiddler and composer Robert Petrie (in his '''Second Collection of Strathspey Reels and Country Dances''', 1796). | |f_annotation='''MRS. GRAHAM OF BALGOWAN'S REEL'''. AKA - "Mrs. Graham of Ballgown's Reel." Scottish, Reel. D Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABCCD. Composed by [[biography:Daniel Dow]], first printed in his collection c. 1775 (p. 8). It also was printed by the Gows and by Kirkmichael, Perthshire, fiddler and composer Robert Petrie (in his '''Second Collection of Strathspey Reels and Country Dances''', 1796). The beautiful and amiable Mrs. Graham was Mary Cathcart, sister of Jane, the Duchess of Athole, a daughter of Lord Cathcart, and a sister to his successor. She married Thomas Graham of Balgowan, afterwards Lord Lynedoch, "the Gallant Graham" who achieved fame at the battle of Barossa. Gainsborough painted her portrait, The Honourable Mrs. Graham. She died in 1794, although Thomas survived until 1843. | ||
|f_printed_sources=Carlin ('''The Gow Collection'''), 1986; No. 444. Robert Ross ('''Choice Collection of Scots Reels or Country Dances & Strathspeys'''), Edinburgh, 1780; p. 39. | |f_printed_sources=Carlin ('''The Gow Collection'''), 1986; No. 444. Robert Ross ('''Choice Collection of Scots Reels or Country Dances & Strathspeys'''), Edinburgh, 1780; p. 39. | ||
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MRS. GRAHAM OF BALGOWAN'S REEL. AKA - "Mrs. Graham of Ballgown's Reel." Scottish, Reel. D Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABCCD. Composed by biography:Daniel Dow, first printed in his collection c. 1775 (p. 8). It also was printed by the Gows and by Kirkmichael, Perthshire, fiddler and composer Robert Petrie (in his Second Collection of Strathspey Reels and Country Dances, 1796). The beautiful and amiable Mrs. Graham was Mary Cathcart, sister of Jane, the Duchess of Athole, a daughter of Lord Cathcart, and a sister to his successor. She married Thomas Graham of Balgowan, afterwards Lord Lynedoch, "the Gallant Graham" who achieved fame at the battle of Barossa. Gainsborough painted her portrait, The Honourable Mrs. Graham. She died in 1794, although Thomas survived until 1843.
