Cronstoune

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Region	Scotland
Genre/Style	Scottish
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Editor/Compiler	Biography:Henry Playford
Book/Manuscript title	Book:Collection of Original Scotch-Tunes
Tune and/or Page number	p. 3
Year of publication/Date of MS	1700
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CRONSTOUNE. Scottish, Dance Tune. Published in Henry Playford's 1700 collection of Scottish dance tunes.The name Cranstoun comes from the Barony of Cranstoun in Midlothian. Clan Cranstoun fought on the side of the Royalists in the Civil War, following which his estates were forfeit. John Glen finds the tune under the title "MacLachlan's Reel" in Angus Cumming's 1780 A Collection of Strathspeys and Old Highland Reels.

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