Annotation:Leut. Whitefoord Bell's Troop
X:1 T:Troop (Leut. Whiteford Bell) M:3/8 L:1/8 B: John Morison - A Collection of New Strathspey Reels, with a few favourite Marches (Edinburgh, c. 1797, No. 56) N:Organist and fiddler Morison (1772-1848) was from Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, N:the easternmost point in Scotland, on the North Sea. Alburger notes that failing N:fortunes forced him to diversify: he also organized balls and ran a ship's chandlery. F:https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_Collection_of_New_Strathspey_Reels_wit/Vo-EymUbJkYC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22john+morison%22+%22new+strathspey+reels%22%C2%A0&pg=PP1&printsec=frontcover K:D d/e/|fdd|dd/e/f/g/|fAA|A2 (3A/B/c/|dfa|ba/g/f/g/|[Ae][Ae][Ae]|[A2e2]d/e/| fdd|dd/e/f/g/|fAA|A2a|fa/f/d/f/|(e/f/)(g/e/)(d/c/)|.A.d.c|[F2A2d2]:| |:A|dfa|afd|c/d/e/f/g|(a/g/)f/e/d/c/|dfa|ba/g/f/g/|[Ae][Ae][Ae]|[A2e2]d/e/| fdd|dd/e/f/g/|fAA|A2a|fa/f/d/f/|(e/f/)(g/e/)(d/c/)|.A.d.c|[F2A2d2]:|
LEUT. WHITEFOORD BELL'S TROOP. Scottish, March (3/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Leut. Whitefoord Bell's Troop" was composed by Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, fiddler-composer John Morison as a companion piece to his "Leut. Whitefoord Bell's March."