Annotation:Miss Edmonston's Reel

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MISS EDMONDSTON. AKA and see "Charleville Lasses (The)," "Cumberland (The)," "Little Duke's," "Miss Gibson (2)," "Mr. Robertson's Reel," "Wayside Wagon (The)," "Una's Lock (1)." Scottish, Reel. B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest appearance of the tune in print in Neil Stewart's 1761 collection (p. 41). The melody was also published in G.E. Blake’s Gentleman’s Amusement (Philadelphia, 1824, p. 13).

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Glen (The Glen Collection of Scottish Dance Music), vol. 1, 1891; p. 15. Skillern (Twenty-Four Country Dances for the Year 1780), 1780; p. 7.

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