Annotation:Mr. White's of Douglas Strathspey

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 MR. WHITE’S (OF DOUGLAS) STRATHSPEY. English, Strathspey, England, Northumberland. F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA’B. Composed by Robert Whinham (1814-1893), a musician, teacher, composer, dancing master and fiddler, originally from Morpeth. The tune was included in Thomas Thompson’s A Complete Repository of Strathspey’s (Alnwick, Northumberland, 1854). Graham Dixon (1995) notes the rare Thompson printing was the earliest known published version of one of Whinham’s pieces.  Source for notated version:  Printed sources: Dixon (Remember Me), 1995; p. 28.  Recorded sources:

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