Croughly

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 Theme code Index    361H6 753H5
 Also known as    
 Composer/Core Source    William Marshall
 Region    Scotland
 Genre/Style    Scottish
 Meter/Rhythm    Strathspey
 Key/Tonic of    F
 Accidental    1 flat
 Mode    Ionian (Major)
 Time signature    4/4
 History    
 Structure    AAB
 Editor/Compiler    William Marshall
 Book/Manuscript title    Book:1822 Collection
 Tune and/or Page number    p. 54
 Year of publication/Date of MS    1822
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CROUGHLY. Scottish, Strathspey. D Minor. Standard tuning. AAB. Composed by William Marshall (1748-1833). Croughly is an old farmhouse with parts that date from 1560, with later additions in 1760; it is a farmhouse to the present day, although combined with a bed and breakfast lodging. Moyra Cowie (The Life and Times of William Marshall, 1999) says the house was occupied in Marshall's day by James Gordon of Croughly (1726-1812). He had six sons and fourteen grandsons who entered military service, serving through the Victorian era, one, William Alexander Gordon (1769-1856) attaining the rank of Major General.

Croughly was the site of an illicit still, Cowie continues, the ancestor of the famous Glenlivet Label. The still became a distillery founded by Robert Gordon at Knoc of Croughly, who, after a dispute with the duke's factor in 1843 moved the enterprise to Delnabo near Tomintoul, and finally to Minmore.

Printed sources: Marshall, Fiddlecase Edition, 1978; 1822 Collection, p. 54. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; p. 242.


X:1
T:Croughly
L:1/8
M:C
R:Strathspey
B:Stewart-Robertson - The Athole Collection  (1884)
Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion
K:F
c|A<(d d)>e f2 d>f|e>d c<g a/g/f/e/ c>e|A<(d d)>e f2 d>f|e>c a/g/f/e/ d2 d:|
E|~F>GA>B c<FA<F|~E>FG>c G/F/E/D/ C>E|~E>GA>B c<FA<g|f>d f/e/d/^c/ d2 D<E|
~F>GA>B c<FA<F|E>FG>c G/F/E/D/ C>E|F<AG<B A<fe<g|f>d f/e/d/^c/ d2d||


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