Annotation:Mrs. Stewart of Allanbank’s

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 MRS. STEWART OF ALLANBANK’S. Scottish, Strathspey. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCCDD’. Allanbank is in Berwickshire. Mrs Stewart was perhaps the wife of Sir John Stewart (1714-1796) 3rd Bart. of Allanbank or John Stewart (1754-1817) 4th Bart. of Allanbank, (and the mother of “Miss Stewart of Allanbank”). If wife of the former, she was Margaret Agnes Smith (c. 1729-1807), and if the latter, Frances Coutts (c. 1809).  Source for notated version:  Printed sources: Gow (Second Collection of Niel Gow’s Reels), 1788; p. 21 (3rd ed.).  Recorded sources:

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