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MISS PENSY MACDONALD. AKA and see “Lady Belhaven('s),” “Miss McDonald (3)/Miss McDonald's (3).” Scottish, Reel. C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. See also O’Neill’s “Miss McDonald” for an Irish variant. “Miss Pensy MacDonald” was the older Scottish name, for the title in the Gow’s 2nd Collection of Strathspey Reels (1788) and Beauties of Niel Gow (1819) is "Miss Pensy Macdonald now Lady Balhaven's Reel." ‘Pensy’ was Penelope Macdonald, the daughter of Ronald Macdonald of Clanranald and Flora Mackinnon. She married William Hamilton of Wishaw, 7th Lord Belhaven and Stenton in March, 1789, in Edinburgh. Pensy died in 1816. “Miss Ferrier and Miss Penelope Macdonald of Clanronald, were rival belles,” says James Grant in his book Old and New Edinburgh, vol. 3, “the former married General Graham of Stirling Castle, the latter Lord Belhaven.” See also the tunes later composed in her honor, “Mrs. Hamilton of Wishaw” and “Mrs. Hamilton of Wishaw’s Strathspey.”

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Gow (The 2nd Collection of Niel Gow’s Reels), 1788; p. 4. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; p. 75.

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-'''MISS PENSY MACDONALD'''. AKA and see “[[Lady Belhaven]]('s),” “[[Miss McDonald]]('s) [3].” Scottish, Reel. C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. See also O’Neill’s “[[Miss McDonald]]” for an Irish variant. “Miss Pensy MacDonald” was the older Scottish name, for the title in the Gow’s '''2nd Collection of Strathspey Reels''' (1788) and Beauties of Niel Gow (1819) is "Miss Pensy Macdonald now Lady Balhaven's Reel." ‘Pensy’ was Penelope Macdonald, the daughter of Ronald Macdonald of Clanranald and Flora Mackinnon. She married William Hamilton of Wishaw, 7th Lord Belhaven and Stenton in March, 1789, in Edinburgh. Pensy died in 1816. “Miss Ferrier and Miss Penelope Macdonald of Clanronald, were rival belles,” says James Grant in his book '''Old and New Edinburgh''', vol. 3, “the former married General Graham of Stirling Castle, the latter Lord Belhaven.” See also the tunes later composed in her honor, “[[Mrs. Hamilton of Wishaw]]” and “[[Mrs. Hamilton of Wishaw’s Strathspey]].”
+'''MISS PENSY MACDONALD'''. AKA and see “[[Lady Belhaven]]('s),” “[[Miss McDonald (3)]]/[[Miss McDonald's (3)]].” Scottish, Reel. C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. See also O’Neill’s “[[Miss McDonald]]” for an Irish variant. “Miss Pensy MacDonald” was the older Scottish name, for the title in the Gow’s '''2nd Collection of Strathspey Reels''' (1788) and Beauties of Niel Gow (1819) is "Miss Pensy Macdonald now Lady Balhaven's Reel." ‘Pensy’ was Penelope Macdonald, the daughter of Ronald Macdonald of Clanranald and Flora Mackinnon. She married William Hamilton of Wishaw, 7th Lord Belhaven and Stenton in March, 1789, in Edinburgh. Pensy died in 1816. “Miss Ferrier and Miss Penelope Macdonald of Clanronald, were rival belles,” says James Grant in his book '''Old and New Edinburgh''', vol. 3, “the former married General Graham of Stirling Castle, the latter Lord Belhaven.” See also the tunes later composed in her honor, “[[Mrs. Hamilton of Wishaw]]” and “[[Mrs. Hamilton of Wishaw’s Strathspey]].”
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