Annotation:Lady Betty Cochran's Strathspey
X:1 T:Lady Betty Cochran's Strathspey M:C L:1/8 R:Strathspey B:Joshua Campbell – A Collection of New Reels & Highland Strathspeys (Glasgow, 1789, p. 48) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:F A|C<F (A/B/c/A/) Tf2 (c>f)|Td(c/B/) (cF) E<GG>B|A(G/F/) (A/c/f/c/) T(dc/B/) (c/A/G/F/)|(E/F/G/A/) (B/d/c/B/) TAFF:| e|T(f/e/f/g/) (f>c) Ta(g/f/) (gc)|(B/d/f) (A>c) (Bd)(gb)|T(a/g/a/g/) (f>c) (d<f) (d/c/B/A/)|(B<G)(c>B) TA>Ffe| Tf/e/f/g/ (f>c) (b/a/g/f/) (g>c)|(e/d/c/B/) (b/a/g/f/) (cd/_e/)|(d/c/)d/f/ (b>d) T(c/A/)c/f/ (a/c/)A/c/|T(B/A/B/d/) T(c>B) TAFF||
LADY BETTY COCHRAN'S STRATHSPEY. Scottish, Strathspey (whole time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. A version of "Lady Betty Cochrane's Reel (3)" (or vice-versa), attributed to biography:Robert Mackintosh. There was a Lady Betty Chochran (AKA Lady Elizabeth Cochrane) who was the daughter of the eighth Earl of Dundonald, who married Patrick Hernon Esq., of Heron, in 1775. Hernon was an MP for Kirkcudbright.