Annotation:Mr. Maitland of Freugh Reel
X:1 T:Mr. Maitland of Freugh Reel C:Robert Mackintosh M:C L:1/8 R:Reel B:Robert Mackintosh – “A Fourth Collection of New Strathspey Reels, also some Famous old Reels” (1804, p. 31) N:Dedicated to the Dutchess [sic] of Manchester N:Robert “Red Rob” Mackintosh (c. 1745-1808) was a Scottish violinist and N:composer active in Edinburgh at the end of the 18th century. Originally from N:Tullymet, near Pitlochry, Perthshire. He moved to London in the last decade N:of his life. Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:A e|c(eef/)g/ aecA|dfec (fBBe)|ceea face|dfed cAA:| e|ceAc dfBd|ceac (dBBd)|ceAc defg|afed cAAe| ceAc dfBd|ceac (dBBd)|cedf eabg|afed cAA||
MR. MAITLAND OF FREUGH REEL. Scottish, Reel (whole time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. East and West Freugh were locations of substantial farms in the Parish of Stoneykirk in the County of Wigtownshire, southwest Scotland. Formerly there was a Medieval castle tower at Freugh, near East Galdenoch, longheld by the MacDougall family but by the mid-19th century only a trace was visible. In the first half of the 19th century Freugh was the property John Maitland Esqr. (c. 1779-1811), 2nd of Freugh and Balgreggan, whose son and heir Patrick was born around the same year Mackintosh issued his Fourth Collection (c. 1804).
