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MR. CHARLES GIBSON, PITLOCHRY'S STRATHSPEY. Scottish, Strathspey (cut time). E Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Composed by Perthshire fiddler-composer biography:Duncan McKercher, the "Dunkeld Paganini." Pitlochry is a town in Perthshire largely of Victorian origins, but sparsely settled when McKercher published his collection. McKercher also composed a strathspey called "Miss Gibson's Strathspey--Pitlochry," presumably for a sister or daughter of the subject of the present tune.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Duncan McKercher (A Collection of Original Stathspeys and Reels), Edinburgh, c. 1830; p. 8.

Recorded sources:

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-'''MR. CHARLES GIBSON, PITLOCHRY'S STRATHSPEY.''' Scottish, Strathspey (cut time). E Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Composed by Perthshire fiddler-composer [[biography:Duncan McKercher]], the "Dunkeld Paganini." Pitlochry is a town in Perthshire. McKercher also composed a strathspey called "[[Miss Gibson's Strathspey--Pitlochry]]," presumably for a sister or daughter of the subject of the present tune.
+'''MR. CHARLES GIBSON, PITLOCHRY'S STRATHSPEY.''' Scottish, Strathspey (cut time). E Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Composed by Perthshire fiddler-composer [[biography:Duncan McKercher]], the "Dunkeld Paganini." Pitlochry is a town in Perthshire largely of Victorian origins, but sparsely settled when McKercher published his collection. McKercher also composed a strathspey called "[[Miss Gibson's Strathspey--Pitlochry]]," presumably for a sister or daughter of the subject of the present tune.
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