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|f_annotation='''MR. JOHN CAMPBELL ARDMORE'S STRATHSPEY'''. Scottish, Strathspey (cut time). B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. "Mr. John Campbell Ardmore's Strathspey" was composed by Islay fiddler-composer [[Alexander Mackay]] (born 1773) for John Campbell (1801-1861), the eldest boy of Archbald and Helen Campbell of Ardmore, Islay. | |f_annotation='''MR. JOHN CAMPBELL ARDMORE'S STRATHSPEY'''. Scottish, Strathspey (cut time). B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. "Mr. John Campbell Ardmore's Strathspey" was composed by Islay fiddler-composer [[Alexander Mackay]] (born 1773) for John Campbell (1801-1861), the eldest boy of Archbald and Helen Campbell of Ardmore, Islay. In 1845 John was appointed Chamberlain to the Duke of Argyll and became known and feared as ''Factor Mór'', the Big Factor, who implemented the 8th Duke of Argyll’s policies in the Ross of Mull and Tiree for the next 25 years. | ||
|f_printed_sources=Alexander Mackay ('''A Collection of Reels, Strathspeys and Slow Tunes'''), Glasgow, c. 1822; p. 13. | |f_printed_sources=Alexander Mackay ('''A Collection of Reels, Strathspeys and Slow Tunes'''), Glasgow, c. 1822; p. 13. | ||
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MR. JOHN CAMPBELL ARDMORE'S STRATHSPEY. Scottish, Strathspey (cut time). B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. "Mr. John Campbell Ardmore's Strathspey" was composed by Islay fiddler-composer Alexander Mackay (born 1773) for John Campbell (1801-1861), the eldest boy of Archbald and Helen Campbell of Ardmore, Islay. In 1845 John was appointed Chamberlain to the Duke of Argyll and became known and feared as Factor Mór, the Big Factor, who implemented the 8th Duke of Argyll’s policies in the Ross of Mull and Tiree for the next 25 years.
