Annotation:Mr. Gordon of Hallhead’s Strathspey

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 MR. GORDON OF HALLHEAD('S STRATHSPEY). Scottish, Slow Strathspey. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Marshall, Skye): AAB (Hunter). Composed by William Marshall (1748-1833). Hallhead was an older mansion of the lairds of Gordon of Ruthven, located in the heart of rural Aberdeenshire in the parish of Leochel-Cushnie.  Source for notated version:  Printed sources: Henderson (Flowers of Scottish Melody), 1935. Hunter (The Fiddle Music of Scotland), 1988; No. 82. MacDonald (The Skye Collection), 1887; p. 65. Marshall, Fiddlecase Edition, 1978; 1822 Collection, p. 40.  Recorded sources:

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