Annotation:Miss Bridges’ Strathspey

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MISS BRIDGES' STRATHSPEY. Scottish, Strathspey (cut time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The tune was first published in Glasgow by musician James Aird in his fifth collection (1797). It was entered into the large 1840 music manuscript collection of multi-instrumentalist John Rook, of Waverton, near Wigton, Cumbria.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Aird (Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 5), Glasgow, 1797; No. 20, p. 8.

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