Belhelvie House

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BELHELVIE HOUSE. AKA and see "Miss Watson's Reel," "The North Bridge of Edinburgh" (Gow). Scottish, Strathspey. C Minor. Standard tuning. AAB. Composed by William Marshall (1748-1833), appearing in his First Collection, 1781 (Marshall also published the tune in another key, naming it "Miss Watson's Reel"). The Gows' appropriated the tune and renamed it "The North Bridge of Edinburgh," by which title it was published in Repository, Part First, 1799. Belhelvie is a manor house located near the town of Newburgh in Aberdeenshire, built in 1783 for Harry Lumsden, an advocate and tax collector in Aberdeen. See also the Irish derivaitive of Marshall's tune, "The Musical Priest." Printed source: Marshall, Fiddlecase Edition, 1978; 1822 Collection, pg. 28.

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