Annotation:Tipstaff Strathspey
X:1 T:Tipstaff Strathspey C:Robert Petrie (?) S:Petrie's Collection of Strathspey Reels and Country Dances &c., 1790 Z:Steve Wyrick <sjwyrick'at'astound'dot'net>, 3/5/04 N:Petrie's First Collection, page 3 L:1/8 M:C R:Strathspey K:G c | B<Gg>G DG-GA/B/ | c<Aa>A EA-A.c | dB-Bd ec-ce | g>dTc>B (TB2A>)c | BGgG D(G G)A/B/ | cAaA EA-Ac | Bg-ge (f/e/f/g/) ag | fd f/e/d/^c/ dDd || d | (d<=f)(Tf>e) (Ted)(Tdc) | cBA^G A2 A,A/B/ | c<eTe>d d>cB<d | g<dTc>B TB2Az | G,<G-TG>B A,<ATA>c | B,<TBB>d C<Tc-c>e | B>de>f g>dTc>B | TA>GA<B G2 G,2 |]
TIPSTAFF STRATHSPEY. AKA - "The Tipp Staf." Scottish, Strathspey (whole or cut time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The "Tipstaff Strathspey" appears in the 1790 collection by Kirkmichael, Perthshire, fiddler biography:Robert Petrie. An earlier version, called “The Tipp Staf” appears earlier in the 1770 music manuscript collection of Northumbrian musician William Vickers, about whom, unfortunately, nothing is known. Vickers’ version is set in reel time, without the dotted strathspey rhythms.
