Annotation:Colonel Campbell of Shawfield's Strathspey
X:1 T:Colonel Campbell of Shawfield's Strathspey C:Robert Mackintosh M:C L:1/16 R:Strathspey B:Robert Mackintosh – “A Fourth Collection of New Strathspey Reels, also some Famous old Reels” (1804, p. 40) N:Dedicated to the Dutchess [sic] of Manchester N:Robert “Red Rob” Mackintosh (c. 1745-1808) was a Scottish violinist and N:composer active in Edinburgh at the end of the 18th century. Originally from N:Tullymet, near Pitlochry, Perthshire. He moved to London in the last decade N:of his life. Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:A cB|AE3CE3 A,E3CE3|B,2Bc dcBA G2B2 B2cB|A3EFA3 E3AFD3|EC3B,3C A,2A2-A2:| fg|ae3ac3 ea3cA3|d3B dcBA G2B2B2cd|ca3ea3 fa3fd3|e3c dcBA E2A2 A2fg| ae3ac3 ea3cA3|d2B2 dcBA G2B2-B2cB|(3A2c2A2 (3B2d2B2 (3c2e2c2 (3d2f2d2|e3c dBcA [C2A2]A2-A2||
COLONEL CAMPBELL OF SHAWFIELD'S STRATHSPEY. Scottish, Strathspey (whole time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. "Colonel Campbell of Shawfield's Strathsey" was composed by Edinburgh fiddler-composer and bandleader biography:Robert Mackintosh (c. 1745-1808) and named for Colonel wikipedia:John Campbell (1770-1809) of Shawfield and Islay, a Scottish soldier and briefly a politician. In 1796 he married Wikipedia:Lady Charlotte Susan Maria Campbell, daughter of the 5th Duke of Argyll. Twenty years later Islay fiddler composer biography:Alexander Mackay composed several tunes for the next generation of the Campbell family of Islay.
