Annotation:Mr. Garden's Welcome Home to Troup House

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MR. GARDEN’S WELCOME HOME TO TROUP HOUSE. Scottish, Strathspey. F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Composed by Kirkmichael, Perthshire, fiddler and composer Robert Petrie (1767-1830), and employee of the Garden family at Troup House. His Second Collection, in which this tune appears in an honor position on the first page, was dedicated to Mrs. Troup.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Petrie (Second Collection of Strathspey Reels and Country Dances), 1796; p. 1.

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