Annotation:Lord MacDuff's Strathspey

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LORD MACDUFF. Scottish, Strathspey. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Composed by Aberdeenshire fiddler-composer Biography:Alexander Walker (b. 1819) in honor of Alexander William George Duff [1], 1st Duke of Fife (1849-1912), styled Viscount Macduff between 1857 and 1879 and known as The Earl Fife between 1879 and 1889, was a British peer who married Princess Louise, the third child and eldest daughter of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra.

See also Walker's "Marr Lodge."

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Walker (A Collection of Strathspeys, Reels, Marches, &c.), 1866; No. 13, p. 5.

Recorded sources:

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