Annotation:Mrs. Graham of Ballgown's Reel

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MRS. GRAHAM OF BALGOWAN'S REEL. Scottish, Reel. D Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABCCD. Composed by Daniel Dow, first printed in his collection c. 1775 (p. 8). It also was printed by the Gows and by Kirkmichael, Perthshire, fiddler and composer Robert Petrie (in his Second Collection of Strathspey Reels and Country Dances, 1796).

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Carlin (The Gow Collection), 1986; No. 444.

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