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X:1 T:Delvine House T:Delvin House [1] M:C L:1/8 R:Reel C:Nathaniel Gow B:Published by Gow & Shepherd, 1803, in a small folio of 5 tunes. N:"Lady Mackenzie of Coul's Strathspey" and "Delvine House", a favorite N:medly Danced at the Queen's Assembly in Geo: Street Rooms the 18th N:January, 1803..." Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:C e|~c2 Ge ~c2 GE|D>dd>c B>GA>B|c>ed>e c>eA>c|G>AG>E G(cc):| e/f/|gece (ce/f/) ge|afdf (df/g/) af|gece gece|.A(fe>d) ecce/f/| gece (ce/f/) ge|afdf d(f/g/ a)f|e>Gd>e c>dA>c|G>AG>E G(cc)||

DELVIN HOUSE [1]. AKA and see "Butcher's Apron (The)," "Hobble the Boutches," "Warm Broth." Scottish, Reel or Strathspey. C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Surenne): AAB (Skye): AABB' (Kerr): AABBCD (McGlashan). The composition of "Delvin House [1]" is credited to fiddler composer biography:Niel Gow (1727-1806) by MacDonald. Delvin House, Perthshire, was the residence of Sir Alexander Muir MacKenzie in McGlashan's day. It was located about 7 miles from Gow's home in Dunkeld. See also O'Neill's Irish variant "Butcher's Apron (The)" and William Bradbury Ryan's (1883) "Hobble the Boutches." Cumbrian musician John Rook entered it into his 1840 music manuscript collection as "Warm Broth."

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Printed sources : - Anderson (Anderson's Budget of Strathspeys, Reels & Country Dances for the German Flute or Violin), Edinburgh, 1820; p. 31. Kerr (Merry Melodies, vol. 2), c. 1880's; No. 96, p. 13 (strathspey). MacDonald (The Skye Collection), 1887; p. 118 (reel). McGlashan (Collection of Strathspey Reels), c. 1780/81; p. 33. Surenne (Dance Music of Scotland), 1852; p. 97.

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