Annotation:Lady Dumfries

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LADY DUMFRIES (REEL). Scottish, Reel. F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Surenne): AAB (Gow, Stewart-Robertson). The tune incorporates the first strain of ""Lass of Patie's Mill (The)," as do several other tunes including "Captain's Maggot (The)," "Gie the Lasses Mair O't," "Lass that Winna Sit Down," "Weel May the Boatie Row," "Boatie Rows (The)," and "Highlander's Farewell (3)." John Glen (1891) finds the earliest appearence of the tune in print in John Riddell's 1782 collection (p. 43).

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Carlin (The Gow Collection), 1986; No. 503. Gow (Complete Repository), Part 2, 1802; p. 30. Saunders (New and Complete Instructor for the Violin), Boston, 1847, No. 37, p. 59. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; p. 220. Surenne (Dance Music of Scotland), 1852; p. 45.

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