Annotation:Miss Gordon of Lasmore's Favorite

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MISS GORDON OF LASMORE'S FAVORITE. Scottish, Strathspey. A Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The strathspey appears in the fourth collection of fiddler-composer biography:Robert Petrie (1767-1830), born in Kirkmichael, Perthshire, although was not claimed by him (as are some other tunes in his collection).

Lismore (sometimes Lesmore or Lasmore) and Appin is a parish in Argyllshire, west Scotland, which includes the West Hebridean island of Lismore.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Petrie (A Fourth Collection of Strathspeys, Reels, Jiggs and Country Dances), c. 1805.

Recorded sources:

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