Annotation:Mrs. Gordon of Baird
Tune properties and standard notation
MRS. GORDON OF BAIRD. Scottish, Jig. F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA’BB’. The melody was first published under the title “Miss Gordon of Braid” and included in Nathaniel Gow’s A Collection of Entirely Original Strathspeys and Reels by Ladies Resident in a Remote Part of the Highlands (1798). Fiddler Dan R. MacDonald (1911-1976) made the first early recording from the Cape Breton tradition of the tune as “Mrs. Gordon of Baird.”
Source for notated version: Winston Fitzgerald (1914-1987, Cape Breton) [Cranford].
Printed sources: Cranford (Winston Fitzgerald), 1997; No. 197, p . 77.
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