Annotation:Miss Williamson’s Reel

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MISS WILLIAMSON'S REEL. Scottish (?), Reel. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune was also entered into the c. 1780-1804 music manuscript collection of musician John Fife, a fiddler and/or fifer who may have been from Perthshire, and who may have made entries at sea (there are references to battles in the Carribean and Mediteranean Seas in the mss.).

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: James Aird (Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 5), Glasgow, 1797; No. 94, p. 36.

Recorded sources:

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