Braes of Mayen

 BRAES OF MAYEN, THE. Scottish, Jig. A Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Composed by Alexander Walker, born 1810, Rhynie, Strathbogie, Aberdeenshire. Once employed (as a gardener) by Sir Charles Forbes of Castle Newe, who became his patron. Walker emmigrated to the United States at age 51 to join his brother in Vermont, and later in Williamstown, Mass., where he "was still going strong in 1898 as a farmer and land surveyor". He published 200 of his melodies before he left Scotland, and a further 180 in America (of which the latter appear to be lost). Mayen is an estate in Aberdeenshire. Printed source: Walker (A Collection of Strathspeys, Reels, Marches, &c.), 1866; No. 35, p. 13.

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