Annotation:Lady Binning

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LADY BINNING. Scottish, Strathspey. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part (Kerr): AB (Surenne): AA'B (Athole, Balmoral, Gow, Skye). Charles Hamilton, Lord Binning (1697-1732) was a Scottish politician. He was the son of Thomas Hamilton, 6th Earl of Haddington and Helen Hope, and used his father's subsidiary title of Lord Binning as a courtesy title. Their elder son Thomas became the 7th Earl of Haddington. The estates of Jerviswood and Mellerstain passed to their second son George who changed his name to Baillie-Hamilton and was ancestor of the 10th and later Earls of Haddington. The title 'Lord Binning' and 'Lady Binning' were used as courtesy titles for the eldest sons of the Earls.

This may be the "Lady Binnie" recorded by fiddler William Craig on an Edison cylinder (#9893) early in the 20th century.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Gow (Complete Repository, Part 4), 1817; p. 23. Kerr (Merry Melodies, vol. 2), c. 1880's; No. 5, p. 4. J. Kenyon Lees (Balmoral Reel Book), c. 1910; p. 13. MacDonald (The Skye Collection), 1887; p. 9. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; p. 9. Surenne (Dance Music of Scotland), 1852; pp. 42-43.

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