Annotation:Orchill House (1)
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ORCHILL HOUSE. Scottish, Reel or Slow Strathspey. A Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Composed by Edinburgh bandleader, fiddle-composer, and music publisher biography:Nathaniel Gow [1] (1763-1831). Orchill House, Ardoch, Perthshire, was a mansion in the Scottish baronial style. The lairds of Orchill were originally a branch of the Graham family.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Carlin (The Gow Collection), 1986; No. 201. Gow (The First Collection of Niel Gow's Reels), 1784 (revised 1801); p. 31. MacDonald (The Skye Collection), 1887; p. 59.
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