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|f_annotation='''MISS SPENCE’S REEL'''. AKA - "[[Lady Spence's Reel]]," "Spencie's Reel." Shetland, Reel. D Major/Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The original music for "Miss Spence's Reel" is from the '''Hoseason Manuscript''' (1862), where there is a note "Composed by John Anderson, Voe, (in 1759) and played by him in the late Mr. Neven of Windhouse's family at Reafirth at a Christmas party, the majority of Ladies, Miss Spences, and the Reel got their name" (Cooke, 1986). With so many Miss Spence's, how could he miss? The tune was miss-titled "Lady Spence's Reel" on the 2004 recording by Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas. The reel is included in the standard Shetland set called the Yell Reels, consisting of "[[Ferrie Reel]]," "[[Lay Dee at Dee (1)]]" and "Miss Spence's Reel." | |f_annotation='''MISS SPENCE’S REEL'''. AKA - "[[Lady Spence's Reel]]," "Spencie's Reel." Shetland, Reel. D Major/Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The original music for "Miss Spence's Reel" is from the '''Hoseason Manuscript''' (1862), where there is a note "Composed by John Anderson, Voe, (in 1759) and played by him in the late Mr. Neven of Windhouse's family at Reafirth at a Christmas party, the majority of Ladies, Miss Spences, and the Reel got their name" (Cooke, 1986). With so many Miss Spence's, how could he miss? The tune was miss-titled "Lady Spence's Reel" on the 2004 recording by Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas. The reel is included in the standard Shetland set called the Yell Reels, consisting of "[[Ferrie Reel]]," "[[Lay Dee at Dee (1)]]" and "Miss Spence's Reel." | ||
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|f_printed_sources=Anderson & Swing ('''Haand Me Doon da Fiddle'''), 1979; No. 32 | |f_printed_sources=Anderson & Swing ('''Haand Me Doon da Fiddle'''), 1979; No. 32. Anderson & Georgeson ('''Da Mirrie Dancers'''), 1970; p. 25. Bain ('''50 Fiddle Solos'''), 1989; p. 41. | ||
|f_recorded_sources=County CO-CD-2729, Art Stamper – “Goodbye Girls, I’m Going to Boston” (2000). Culburnie Records CUL 121D, Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas - "Fire and Grace" (2004. Appears as "Lady Spence's Reel"). Topic 12TS379, Aly Bain & Tom Anderson "Shetland Folk Fiddling, vol. 2" (1978). | |f_recorded_sources=County CO-CD-2729, Art Stamper – “Goodbye Girls, I’m Going to Boston” (2000). Culburnie Records CUL 121D, Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas - "Fire and Grace" (2004. Appears as "Lady Spence's Reel"). Topic 12TS379, Aly Bain & Tom Anderson "Shetland Folk Fiddling, vol. 2" (1978). | ||
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MISS SPENCE’S REEL. AKA - "Lady Spence's Reel," "Spencie's Reel." Shetland, Reel. D Major/Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The original music for "Miss Spence's Reel" is from the Hoseason Manuscript (1862), where there is a note "Composed by John Anderson, Voe, (in 1759) and played by him in the late Mr. Neven of Windhouse's family at Reafirth at a Christmas party, the majority of Ladies, Miss Spences, and the Reel got their name" (Cooke, 1986). With so many Miss Spence's, how could he miss? The tune was miss-titled "Lady Spence's Reel" on the 2004 recording by Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas. The reel is included in the standard Shetland set called the Yell Reels, consisting of "Ferrie Reel," "Lay Dee at Dee (1)" and "Miss Spence's Reel."
