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). See also Mackintosh's "Mrs. Maitland of Freugh's Reel."
