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MISS FORBES. AKA - "Miss Forbes' Fancy." AKA and see “Miss Horgan's.” AKA and see "Miss Horgan's," "Reel de Napoléon (1)," "Reel du voyageur (1)," Reel ouverture du bal." Scottish, Reel. C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Gow, Surenne): AAB (Athole): AABB' (Kerr). Attributed to “D.D.” (Daniel Dow) by Gow in the 4th Collection. The name Forbes is derived from the Gaelic term forb-ais, meaning ‘at the land’. The clan’s original holdings were in Aberdeenshire, on the banks of the river Don. See also French-Canadian versions recorded by Joseph Allard under titles "Reel de Napoléon (1)," "Reel du voyageur (1)," and "Reel ouverture du bal."

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Printed sources : - William Campbell (Campbell’s 1st Book of New and Favorite Country Dances & Strathspey Reels for the Harp, Piano-Forte & Violin, with their Proper Figures, as Danced at Court, Bath, Williss’s, & Hanover Square Rooms), Soho, London, edition of c. 1793, first published c. 1786; p. 21. Carlin (The Gow Collection), 1986; No. 282. Gow (Fourth Collection of Niel Gow’s Reels), 2nd ed., originally 1800; p. 7. Kerr (Merry Melodies, vol. 2), c. 1880's; No. 89, p. 12. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; p. 69. Surenne (Dance Music of Scotland), 1852; p. 100.

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