Annotation:Miss Mary Garden (Delgaty's) Reel
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MISS MARY GARDEN (DELGATY’S) REEL. Scottish, Reel. D Major. Standard tuning. AB. One of several tunes composed by Kirkmichael, Perthshire, fiddler and composer Robert Petrie (1767-1830) for the Garden family. His Second Collection of Strathspey Reels and Country Dances (1796), in which this melody appears (p. 15), was dedicated to his patron and employer, Mrs. Garden of Troup, Banffshire. The Delgaty estate in Aberdeenshire had come into the hands of the Garden family in the 1760’s.
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