Annotation:Lady Mary Lindsay
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LADY MARY LINDSAY. AKA - "Lady Mary Lindsay's Reel." Scottish, Reel (cut time). C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest appearance of the tune in print in Ayrshire fiddler-composer biography:John Riddell's 1782 collection (p. 33). The second strain of this tune is the same as the first part of the Irish reel "Fisherman's Lilt (1)."
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Glen (The Glen Collection of Scottish Dance Music, vol. 1), 1891; p. 10. John Riddell (Collection of Scots Reels, Minuets &c. for the Violin), 1782; p. 33.
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