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MISS MARGARET GORDON OF LESSMORE. Scottish, Reel. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Composed by John MacGlashan, who may have been a brother of the Alexander 'King' Macglashan, a famous Edinburgh teacher and bandleader in the latter 18th century. He published his own collection in 1796 in Edinburgh.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Glen (The Glen Collection of Scottish Dance Music), vol. 2, 1895; p. 16. MacGlashan (A Collection of Strathspey Reels for the Piano Forte, Violin, or German Flute), 1796; p. 1.

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