Annotation:Penny Wedding Reel

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PENNY WEDDING REEL. Scottish, Reel. D Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Composed by biography:Nathaniel Gow (1763-1831). A ‘penny wedding’ is one in which the guests all contribute a dish for the after-ceremony celebration, or one in which the guests all contribute something to the new couple to defray the cost of the festivities.

The Penny Wedding, 1818. By Sir David Wilkie (1785-1841). The fiddler at left is a likeness of Niel Gow (1727-1807).



Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Carlin (The Gow Collection), 1986; No. 311. Gow (Fifth Collection of Strathspey Reels), 1807; p. 13.

Recorded sources:



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