Annotation:Mr. Murray of Pittendreich

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 MR. MURRAY (OF PITTENDREICH). Scottish, Strathspey. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB (Skye): AABB (Perlman). The most celebrated composition by William Martin (1836 1908), a native of East Lothian who was schoolmaster at Inverkeithny in Banffshire before retiring to Edinburgh in 1901. Perlman (1996) notes that his source, Elmer Robinson, followed the traditional Prince Edward Island musical custom of playing the “high turn” first. Source for notated version:  Source for notated version: Elmer Robinson (b. c. 1910, Mount Pleasant, West Prince County, Prince Edward Island; now resident of Woodstock) [Perlman].  Printed sources: MacDonald (The Skye Collection), 1887; p. 29. Perlman (The Fiddle Music of Prince Edward Island), 1996; p. 196.  Recorded sources:

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