Annotation:Mrs. Captain Stewart's Strathspey
X:1 T:Mrs. Captain Stewart's Strathspey C:Robert Petrie S:Petrie's Collection of Strathspey Reels and Country Dances &c., 1790 Z:Steve Wyrick <sjwyrick'at'astound'dot'net>, 3/19/04 N:Petrie's First Collection, page 16 L:1/8 M:C R:Strathspey K:F f | c<FTc>A c<FTc>A | d<GTd>c d<GG>f | c<FTc>A c<FTa>g | f>d c/d/c/B/ AFF :| c | Tf2 a>f c<fa<f | b>aTg>f (eggc) | (f/e/f/g/) af c>fa>f | b<aTg>f (cffg) | Tf2 a<f c<fa<f | b>aTg>f e<gge | de/f/ c<f B<fA<f | g<dTc>B AFF |]
MRS. CAPTAIN STEWART. AKA and see "Miss MacLeod of Colbeck." Scottish, Strathspey (whole time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The melody appears under the above title in Kirkmichael, Perthshire, fiddler-composer biography:Robert Petrie's 1st Collection (1790), p. 16.
