Annotation:Turriff Hunt (The)
X:6 T:Turriff Hunt C:Robert Petrie S:Petrie's Collection of Strathspey Reels and Country Dances &c. (c. 1790, p. 4) Z:Steve Wyrick <sjwyrick'at'astound'dot'net>, 3/5/04 N:Petrie's First Collection, page 4 L:1/8 M:C R:Strathspey K:Gm G<Gd>c A<cd>g | f=e/f/ d<f c<fA>F | G<GTd>c A>cd<g | f<df>A BGG2 :| GgTg>f d>f Tg2 | d>fc>f B>fA<F | GgTg>f d>fg>a | f<df>A B<GG>A | GgTg>f df Tg2 | d>fc>f B>fA<F | G<GTd>c A>cd<g | f<df>A B<G G2 |]
'TURRIFF HUNT', THE. Scottish, Strathspey (whole time). G Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB.The ancient town of Turriff is in Aberdeenshire, an area associated with the titles of many of fiddler-composer biography:Robert Petrie’s tunes. Turriff was the scene in 1639 of the first serious bloodshed of the English Civil War, when Covenanters and Royalist forces clashed in an encounter known as theTrot of Turriff.
