Annotation:Mrs. Gordon of Baird

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MRS. GORDON OF BAIRD. Scottish, Jig. F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA’BB’. The melody was first published under the title "Miss Gordon of Baird” and included in Nathaniel Gow’s A Collection of Entirely Original Strathspeys and Reels by Ladies Resident in a Remote Part of the Highlands (1798). Fiddler Dan R. MacDonald (1911–1976) made the first early recording from the Cape Breton tradition of the tune as “Mrs. Gordon of Baird.”

Source for notated version: Winston Fitzgerald (1914–1987, Cape Breton) [Cranford].

Printed sources: Cranford (Winston Fitzgerald: A Collection of Fiddle Tunes), 1997; No. 197, p. 77.

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