Ardrossan Canal (The)

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Composer/Core Source	Nathaniel Gow
Region	Scotland
Genre/Style	Scottish
Meter/Rhythm	Strathspey
Key/Tonic of	F
Accidental	1 flat
Mode	Ionian (Major)
Time signature	4/4
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Editor/Compiler	Nathaniel Gow
Book/Manuscript title	Book:Fifth Collection of Strathspey Reels
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Year of publication/Date of MS	9
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Composed by Nathaniel Gow (1763-1831). The Glasgow, Paisley and Ardrossan Canal was a project originally designed to connect industrial interior Scotland with the west coast ports. It was the brainchild of Hugh Montgomerie, 12th Earl of Eglinton, in 1891 (to whom the Gows dedicated their Fourth Collection of Strathspeys & Dances, Edinburgh,1803), in part to take advantage of his Ayrshire coal fields and his new deep-water port of Ardrossan. Major portions of the canal were completed by 1811, however, the canal was never completed to its terminus and was outdated almost from the time it started to function. It was quickly replaced in the service it was created for by railroads, and yielded not a dividend for its investors. Poet Robert Tannahill (who suffered from depressive episodes) drowned himself in a culverted stream under the canal in 1810, after receiving a rejection notice from a publisher

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