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MISS H. HUNTER OF BLACKNESS. Scottish, Reel. E Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Composed by Biography:Nathaniel Gow (1763–1831) for a member of a Forfarshire manor family. See note for “My Wife She’s Ta’en the Gee” for more on the family.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Carlin (The Gow Collection), 1986; No. 283. Glen (Collection of Scottish Dance Music, vol. 2), 1895; p. 32. Gow (Third Collection of Niel Gow’s Reels), 1792; p. 16 (3rd ed.).

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