Annotation:Mrs. Ramsay of Barnton (1)
Tune properties and standard notation
MRS. RAMSAY OF BARNTON [1]. Scottish, Slow Strathspey. B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The title probably refers to Betty Hamilton (1770-1809), wife of William Ramsay of Barnton, a wealthy man who was a dominant figure in one of Edinburgh’s two private banks and a very substantial shareholder in the Royal Bank of Scotland. In 1781 Ramsay bought the estate of Barnton and Cramond Regis (the grounds of what is now Davidson’s Mains Park), demolished the old house and built a grander one on the site. Cramond Regis, the old name for the area, was an ancient hunting seat of Scotland’s kings.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Carlin (The Gow Collection), 1986; No. 190. Gow (Third Collection of Niel Gow’s Reels), 1792; pp. 10-11 (3rd ed.).
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