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LADY ERSKINE. Scottish, Reel. A Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. "Lady Erskine" was composed by biography:James Walker (1771-1840) of Dysart, Fife, a professional musician and music teacher, who published his first collection in 1793-4. Walker dedicated his second collection to Lady St. Clair Erskine of Sinclair, the spouse of Sir James Erskine St. Clair of Sinclair, Bart., to whom he had dedicated his first collection.

The melody appears as "Lady Eshkin's reell" in the music manuscript collection of Spithope, Northumberland, musician John Robson [1], dated February, 1874.

Additional notes
Source for notated version : - Kenny Chaisson (b. 1947, Bear River, North-East Kings County, Prince Edward Island; now resident of Rollo Bay) [Perlman].

Printed sources : - Cranford (Jerry Holland: The Second Collection), 2000; No. 44, p. 18. Glen (The Glen Collection of Scottish Dance Music), vol. 2, 1895; p. 44. Perlman (The Fiddle Music of Prince Edward Island), 1996; p. 104.

Recorded sources : - Jerry Holland - "Lively Steps" (1988).

See also listing at :
Alan Snyder's Cape Breton Fiddle Recording Index [2]

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