Annotation:Captain Collin Campbell of Shawfield's Reel
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T:Captain Collin Campbell of Shawfield's Reel
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R:Reel
B:Alexander Mackay – A Collection of Reels, Strathspeys and Slow Tunes…
B:Chiefly composed by Alexander Mackay, Musician Islay (c. 1822, p. 29)
B: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/104487947
N:Dedicated to the Right Hon. Lady Elinor Campbell of Islay and Shawfield.
N:Mackay was born c. 1775 and was a fiddler-composer from Islay. Many of his
N:tune titles are reflect Islay settings.
N:Printed in Glasgow by J. MacFadyen, 30 Wilson St.
Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion
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CAPTAIN COLLIN CAMPBELL OF SHAWFIELD'S REEL. Scottish, Reel (cut time). A Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. "Captain Collin Campbell of Shawfield's Reel" was first published in Islay fiddler-composer Alexander Mackay's Collection of Reels, Strathspeys and Slow Tunes (c. 1822). Collin Campbell was born in Ardpatrick, Kilcalmonell, Argyllshire, Scotlandin July, 1785 to Walter Frederick Campbell of Shawfield & Islay and his wife Eleanor Kerr (to whom Mackay dedicated his collection). Walter Campbell was the laird of Islay, and a powerful landowner on the island. Collin, a Captain at the time of Mackay's publication, rose to become a Rear Admiral in the British navy. He died in 1851 at Park Cottage near Uxbridge, Middlesex, England. See also A. Cameron's "Captain Colin Campbell's March," probably for the same person.
