Annotation:Earl of Hyndford
Tune properties and standard notation
EARL OF HYNDFORD('S REEL). Scottish, Cape Breton; Reel. C Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Assuming that the tune was new in Gow's time (it is unattributed in the Third Collection of 1792), then the Earl of Hyndford honored by the title would have been Thomas Carmichael (c. 1750-1811), 5th Earl of Hyndford, who acceded to the title in 1787. He was unmarried and died without issue.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Carlin (The Gow Collection), 1986; No. 249. Gow (Third Collection of Niel Gow's Reels), 3rd ed., 1792; p. 32. Little (Scottish and Cape Breton Fiddle Music in New Hampshire), 1984; p. 4. MacDonald (The Skye Collection), 1887; p. 187. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; p. 268.
Recorded sources: Rounder 7004, Joe Cormier - "The Dances Down Home" (1977).
See also listing at:
Alan Snyder's Cape Breton Fiddle Recording Index [1]