Annotation:Lord Chichester Spencer's Reel

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LORD CHICHESTER SPENCER'S REEL. Scottish, Reel (cut time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. See also the similarly titled "Lord Spencer Chichester" by Nathaniel Gow. There was a Lord Spencer Stanley Chichester (1775–1819), of Dumbrody Park, co. Wexford, who was a sometime Member of Parliament, although it is not known if it was he who is associated with the title of the tune.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Campbell (Collection of Marches, Quick Steps, Strathspeys, Reels, etc.), Glasgow, 1798; p. 7.

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