X:1
T:Lady Mary Lindsay's Reel
M:C|
L:1/8
R:Reel
B:John Riddell of Ayr – Collection of Scots Reels, Minuets &c.
B:for the Violin (1782, p. 33)
Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion
K:C
g|{f}edc(G cd)cE|TDCDE {E}A2 Ag|{f}edcG cdc(E|TDC)DE C2C:|
(E/F/|GA)GE GAcd|Tedce d2 d(E/F/|GA)GE GAcd|egde c2 cE/F/|
GAGE GAcd|egfe dc(de/f/|ga)ge fedc|AGAB c2c||
LADY MARY LINDSAY. AKA - "Lady Mary Lindsay's Reel." Scottish, Reel (cut time). C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest appearance of the tune in print in Ayrshire fiddler-composer biography:John Riddell's 1782 collection (p. 33). The second strain of this tune is the same as the first part of the Irish reel "Fisherman's Lilt (1)."
Additional notes
Printed sources : - Glen (The Glen Collection of Scottish Dance Music, vol. 1), 1891; p. 10. John Riddell (Collection of Scots Reels, Minuets &c. for the Violin), 1782; p. 33.
