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|f_annotation='''COLONEL FORBES C.B.''' (Invernan). Scottish, Strathspey (whole time). C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. General Sir John Forbes G.C.B. (1817-1906) was born in Aberdeenshire and had a distinguished military career, serving in India and Persia. He was a General in the service of the Honorable East Indian Company and saw action in the Sind and Afghanistan under Sir Charles Napier, 1843. In the Persian campaign of the next decade he was severely wounded. See also "[[Colonel Forbes March]]." | |f_annotation='''COLONEL FORBES C.B.''' (Invernan). Scottish, Strathspey (whole time). C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. General Sir John Forbes G.C.B. (1817-1906) was born in Aberdeenshire and had a distinguished military career, serving in India and Persia. He was a General in the service of the Honorable East Indian Company and saw action in the Sind and Afghanistan under Sir Charles Napier, 1843. In the Persian campaign of the next decade he was severely wounded. See also "[[Colonel Forbes of Inverenan's March]]." | ||
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COLONEL FORBES C.B. (Invernan). Scottish, Strathspey (whole time). C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. General Sir John Forbes G.C.B. (1817-1906) was born in Aberdeenshire and had a distinguished military career, serving in India and Persia. He was a General in the service of the Honorable East Indian Company and saw action in the Sind and Afghanistan under Sir Charles Napier, 1843. In the Persian campaign of the next decade he was severely wounded. See also "Colonel Forbes of Inverenan's March."
Skinner also composed another tune for the family, honoring an ancestor, "Black Jock o' Skellater."
