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|f_annotation='''LADY GORDON CUMMING'S STRATHSPEY.''' Scottish, Strathspey (whole time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. "Lady Gordon Cumming's Stathspey" was composed by Elgin fiddler-composer [[biography:Donald Grant]] and published in his '''Collection of Strathspeys, Reels, Jigs &c.''' (1820-21). Lady Gordon Cumming at the time of Grant's issue was | |f_annotation='''LADY GORDON CUMMING'S STRATHSPEY.''' Scottish, Strathspey (whole time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. "Lady Gordon Cumming's Stathspey" was composed by Elgin fiddler-composer [[biography:Donald Grant]] and published in his '''Collection of Strathspeys, Reels, Jigs &c.''' (1820-21). Lady Gordon Cumming at the time of Grant's issue was Elizabeth Maria Campbell (of Islay), who married Sir William Gordon Cumming-Gordon (1787-1854), 2nd Baronet of Altyre and Gordonstown, who succeeded his father in 1806 and became, briefly, an MP for Elgin Burghs in the 1830’s. Elizabeth died in 1842, and in 1846 Sir William wed again, to Jane Eliza MacIntosh. He had fifteen children between the two women. The seat of the family was Altyre House (now demolished) in Elginshire, Moray, south of Forres. | ||
|f_printed_sources= | |f_printed_sources= Donald Grant ('''Collection of Strathspeys, Reels, Jigs &c.'''), 1820-21; p. 28. | ||
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LADY GORDON CUMMING'S STRATHSPEY. Scottish, Strathspey (whole time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. "Lady Gordon Cumming's Stathspey" was composed by Elgin fiddler-composer biography:Donald Grant and published in his Collection of Strathspeys, Reels, Jigs &c. (1820-21). Lady Gordon Cumming at the time of Grant's issue was Elizabeth Maria Campbell (of Islay), who married Sir William Gordon Cumming-Gordon (1787-1854), 2nd Baronet of Altyre and Gordonstown, who succeeded his father in 1806 and became, briefly, an MP for Elgin Burghs in the 1830’s. Elizabeth died in 1842, and in 1846 Sir William wed again, to Jane Eliza MacIntosh. He had fifteen children between the two women. The seat of the family was Altyre House (now demolished) in Elginshire, Moray, south of Forres.
