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|f_annotation='''MISS CUMMING BRUCE.''' Scottish, Strathspey (whole time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Miss Cumming Bruce was the only daughter of Major Cumming Bruce of Dunphail and Kinnaird. She married Lord Bruce, eldest son of the Earl of Elgin. | |f_annotation='''MISS CUMMING BRUCE.''' Scottish, Strathspey (whole time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Miss Cumming Bruce was the only daughter of Major Cumming Bruce of Dunphail and Kinnaird. She married Lord Bruce, eldest son of the Earl of Elgin. | ||
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During a tour of the north of Scotland, poet Evan MacColl attended a dinner party at Altyre House where Major Cumming-Bruce, his wife and daughter, were present and recorded: | |||
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''Miss Cumming-Bruce a very delightful girl, an exquisite singer, and having the good sense'' ''to prefer Scotch and Highland airs to any foreign music''<ref>Evan MacColl, The English Poetical Works of Evan MacColl, p. 332. </ref>. | |||
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|f_printed_sources= James Taylor ('''A Collection of Strathspeys & Reels, together with a Set of Scots Quadrilles'''), Elgin, c. 1835; p. 2. | |||
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MISS CUMMING BRUCE. Scottish, Strathspey (whole time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Miss Cumming Bruce was the only daughter of Major Cumming Bruce of Dunphail and Kinnaird. She married Lord Bruce, eldest son of the Earl of Elgin.
During a tour of the north of Scotland, poet Evan MacColl attended a dinner party at Altyre House where Major Cumming-Bruce, his wife and daughter, were present and recorded:
Miss Cumming-Bruce a very delightful girl, an exquisite singer, and having the good sense to prefer Scotch and Highland airs to any foreign music[1].
- ↑ Evan MacColl, The English Poetical Works of Evan MacColl, p. 332.