Annotation:Maggie Cameron
X:1 T:Maggie Cameron M:4/4 L:1/8 R:Strathspey B:Logan's Collection, Book 2 (c. 1900, No. 45, p. 30) Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:Amix f|e2 cA cecA|e>cA>c e2f2|e2 cA cecA|d>BG>B d2f2| e2 cA cecA|e>cA>c eA(3agf|eAcA ceAc|d>BG>B d2f2| eaca eaca|(3gfe ac e2 f2|1 eaca e>fg>e|(3dcBgB d2f2:| |2 g|(3agfg>e (3fafe>c|(3dcBg>B|d2 (3fga||e2 ce (3A/A/A/ece|(3A/A/A/ece (3A/A/A/eac| |1 e2 ce (3A/A/A/ece|(3dcBg>B d2f2:|2 e<aca e<aca (3dcBg>B d2f2| e<aa>g f>ea>e|c>ea>e cdef|eaag (3face>c|(3dcBg>B d2f2| e<aa>g f>ea>e|a>Ae>d cdeg|(3afa (3geg (3fdf (3ece|(3dcBg>B d2f2||
MAGGIE CAMERON. Scottish, Canadian; (Pipe) Strathspey. Canada, Cape Breton. A Major (Hunter): A Mixolydian (Martin, Skinner). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Hunter, Skinner): ABCD (Martin). A pipe strathspey published in the 19th century collections of William Ross, Logan, and in the Scots Guards Standard Settings of Pipe Tunes and Donald McPhedran's collection (p. 6). It is an often-printed tune in pipe repertory and appears in at least a dozen other collections. The tune is also popular among Cape Breton fiddlers, after J. Scott Skinner's fiddle adaptation of the pipe tune. An earlier version of "Maggie Cameron" can be found in Glasgow piper, pipe teacher and pipe-maker William Gunn's 1848 collection under the title "Willie Roy's Loomhouse," and that a related reel goes by the name "Old Men at the Loom." The latter is quite a bit simpler and, presumably, he says, is a still earlier version. J. Scott Skinner, in Harp and Claymore (1904), and, in his manuscript copy, directs: "Press hard with the fingers, and don't omit the wee notes or fluttering leaves. Give one bow to each bar as a rule."
