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FASCALLY HOUSE. Scottish, Strathspey (cut time). A Mixoldyian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB & variation sets. Composer by Perthshire fiddler-composer biography:Duncan McKercher, the "Dunkeld Paganini." Faskally House, Pitlochry, Perthshire, was the seat of Archibald Butter in McKercher's time. The Butters were one of the landed Perthshire Highland families, and McKercher composed and published several melodies named after them.

An early iteration of Faskally House, Perthshire.



Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Duncan McKercher (A Collection of Original Stathspeys and Reels), Edinburgh, c. 1830; pp. 1-3.

Recorded sources:




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