Annotation:Miss Catharine Chalmer’s Reel

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MISS CATHRINE CHALMERS. AKA – “Chathrine Chalmer.” Scottish, Reel. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Composed by Nathaniel Gow (1766-1831). There was a bookseller in Edinburgh in the early decades of the 19th century named James Chalmers, who partnered for some years with musician Charles Duff to sell music. Surely Gow, in the music selling business himself, knew the firm, and it is possible Miss Chalmers was a relation.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Glen (The Glen Collection of Scottish Dance Music), vol. 2, 1895; p. 15. Carlin (The Gow Collection), 1986; No. 240. Gow (Third Collection of Niel Gow’s Reels), 3rd ed., 1792; p. 29.

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