Annotation:Lady Erskine
X:1 T:Lady Erskine’s Reel C:James Walker (1771-1840), Dysart M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel B:James Walker - Collection of new Scots reels, strathspeys, jigs, &c. (1793-4, p. 2) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:Amin E|A2AB c2 BA|Bdgd BGGB|A2 AB (cd)ea|gegB A2-A:| g|abag eg a2|gage de g2|abag e^fge|dBgB A2Ag| abag eg a2|gage de g2|aabg a^fge |dBgB A2-A||
LADY ERSKINE. Scottish, Reel. A Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. "Lady Erskine" was composed by biography:James Walker (1771-1840) of Dysart, Fife, a professional musician and music teacher, who published his first collection in 1793-4. Walker dedicated his second collection to Lady St. Clair Erskine of Sinclair, the spouse of Sir James Erskine St. Clair of Sinclair, Bart., to whom he had dedicated his first collection.
The melody appears as "Lady Eshkin's reell" in the music manuscript collection of Spithope, Northumberland, musician John Robson [1], dated February, 1874.
