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|f_annotation=[[File:Maryduff.jpg|right|400px|thumb|"A portrait of Mrs. Robert William Duff of Fetteresso and Culter", Sir Henry Raeburn (1756-1823)]]'''MRS. DUFF (OF FETTERESSO’S) STRATHSPEY [1]'''. Scottish, Strathspey (whole time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Composed by Kirkmichael, Perthshire, fiddler and composer [[biography:Robert Petrie]] (1767-1830). It appears in his '''Second Collection of Strathspey Reels and Country Dances''' (1796), a volume dedicated to his patroness and employer, Mrs. Garden of Troup. Mrs. Duff was Mary | |f_annotation=[[File:Maryduff.jpg|right|400px|thumb|"A portrait of Mrs. Robert William Duff of Fetteresso and Culter", Sir Henry Raeburn (1756-1823)]]'''MRS. DUFF (OF FETTERESSO’S) STRATHSPEY [1]'''. Scottish, Strathspey (whole time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Composed by Kirkmichael, Perthshire, fiddler and composer [[biography:Robert Petrie]] (1767-1830). It appears in his '''Second Collection of Strathspey Reels and Country Dances''' (1796), a volume dedicated to his patroness and employer, Mrs. Garden of Troup. Mrs. Duff was Mary Mor(r)ison (c. 1768-1833), the wife of Robert William Duff (1767-1834), 2nd of Fetteresso, whom she married in 1789. She was the grand-daughter of General Abercrombie of Glassaugh, M.P., and was his stepsister and second cousin. Henry Raeburn painted her portrait [http://www.thepeerage.com/p18101.htm#i181002] in 1799. They lived at Fetteresso Castle, a gothic style Palladian manor built in 1761 around a 14th century towerhouse, and is located in Kincardineshire near the town of Stonehaven. | ||
|f_printed_sources=Petrie ('''Second Collection of Strathspey Reels and Country Dances'''), 1796; p. 6. | |f_printed_sources=Petrie ('''Second Collection of Strathspey Reels and Country Dances'''), 1796; p. 6. | ||
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