Annotation:Colonel McKay

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COLONEL McKAY. Scottish, Reel. C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest printings of the tune in Robert Bremner's 1768 2nd collection (p. 112) and Daniel Dow's c. 1775 collection (p. 12). See also the strathspey setting of the melody, "Colonel MacKay's Strathspey," in Joshua Campbell's 1789 collection (Glasgow).

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Campbell (10th Book of New and Favorite Country Dances), 1795; p. 18. Petrie (2nd Collection of Strathspey Reels and Country Dances), 1796; p. 22.

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