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NEW BRIG OF GLASGOW, THE. AKA and see "Cumberland Reel," "Miss Nancy Gibson," "Young Invercauld's Strathspey." Scottish, Strathspey. G Minor. Standard tuning. AB (Cole): AAB (Howe): AA'B (Gatherer). An anonymous tune commemorating the opening of a new bridge in Glasgow which was completed in 1768. Glen (1891) finds the earliest printing of this tune in Joshua Campbell's A Collection of the Newest Reels and Minuets (1778, p. 24). The strathspey melody has also been attributed to fiddler-composer biography:Robert Petrie, who printed it as "Young Invercauld's Strathspey" in his Fourth Collection of Strathspey Reels, Jiggs (). Edinburgh publishers Gow and Shepherd printed the tune under the title "The Cumberland Reel, or Miss Nancy Gibson" as a single sheet issued around 1800, finds Nigel Gatherer.

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Printed sources : - Cole (1000 Fiddle Tunes), 1940; p. 125. Gatherer (Gatherer's Musical Museum), 1987; p. 35. Howe (1000 Jigs and Reels), c. 1867; p. 156. Ryan's Mammoth Collection, 1883; p. 165.

Recorded sources : - Folkways FW08847_203, Richard Carlin - "The Poppy Leaf: English Concertina Tunes" (1978).

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+|f_annotation='''NEW BRIG OF GLASGOW, THE.''' AKA and see "[[Cumberland Reel]]," "[[Miss Nancy Gibson]]," "[[Young Invercauld's Strathspey]]." Scottish, Strathspey. G Minor. Standard tuning. AB (Cole): AAB (Howe): AA'B (Gatherer). An anonymous tune commemorating the opening of a new bridge in Glasgow which was completed in 1768. Glen (1891) finds the earliest printing of this tune in Joshua Campbell's '''A Collection of the Newest Reels and Minuets''' (1778, p. 24). The strathspey melody has also been attributed to fiddler-composer [[biography:Robert Petrie]], who printed it as "[[Young Invercauld's Strathspey]]" in his '''Fourth Collection of Strathspey Reels, Jiggs''' (). Edinburgh publishers Gow and Shepherd printed the tune under the title "The Cumberland Reel, or Miss Nancy Gibson" as a single sheet issued around 1800, finds Nigel Gatherer.
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 |f_recorded_sources=Folkways FW08847_203, Richard Carlin - "The Poppy Leaf: English Concertina Tunes" (1978).