Annotation:Lord Lewis Gordon's Reel

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LORD LEWIS GORDON('S REEL). Scottish, Strathspey. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCDEEFF. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest appearance of this tune in print in Alexander McGlashan's 1780 Collection. Lord Lewis Gordon was one of Bonnie Prince Charlie's supporters, appointed a member of his council in Edinburgh as a result of his victories on the Prince's behalf in the rising of 1745.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: McGlashan (Collection of Strathspey Reels), vol. 3, 1786; p. 1.

Recorded sources:




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