Annotation:Mrs. Jamieson's Favourite

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MRS. JAMIESON’S FAVOURITEScottish, Slow Air (6/8 time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Composed by Banffshire fiddler biography:Charles Grant (1806-1892), a pupil of William Marshall and inherited Marshall’s fiddle when he died.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Martin (Traditional Scottish Fiddling), 2002; p. 114.

Recorded sources: Culburnie Records, Alasdair Fraser – “Legacy of the Scottish Fiddle” (2000). Green Linnet Records, Aly Bain – “Lonely Bird” (1996). Scotdisc KITV 453, “Ron Gonnella’s International Friendship of the Fiddle” (1988). pic TSCD 669, Willy Taylor, Joe Hutton & Will Atkinson (et al) – “Ranting and Reeling: Dance Music of the north of England” (1998. Atkinson {b. 1908} of Crookham, Northumberland, was an harmonica player, Taylor a fiddler and Hutton a Northumbrian small-piper).

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