Annotation:James Lumsden

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 JAMES LUMSDEN. Scottish, Strathspey. B Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Composed by Alexander Walker (b. 1816, Aberdeenshire) for James Lumsden of Braco. Lumdsden was the tenant of the farm of Braco, in Banff, which belonged to the Earl of Fife. Lumsden was a gentleman farmer, and interested in improving the land (see his "Report on Draining and Subsoil Ploughing on the Farm of Braco", which won a silver medal of the Agricultural Society. He also raised prize Clydesdales. He died at Walkerburn, Innerleithen, in 1883.  Source for notated version:   Printed sources: Walker (A Collection of Strathspeys, Reels, Marches, &c.), 1866; No. 58, p. 21.  Recorded sources:

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