Annotation:Miss Brown of Linkwood's Strathspey
X:1 T:Miss Brown of Linkwood’s Strathspey C:Donald Grant M:C L:1/16 R:Strathspey B:Donald Grant – Collection of Strathspeys, Reels, Jigs &c. (1820-21, p. 31) B:The volume was perhaps first issued c. 1790, from a penciled note in a copy. N:The collection was dedicated to Mrs. Col. Grant of Grant (“Sir James and N:Lady Grant of Grant”). S:https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105814167 Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:F c2|{B}A3GA3F Ac3 Tc4|d3f (dc).B.A TG3AB3d|{B}A3GA3F Ac3c3f|d3f (ag).f.e f4f2:| g2|f3ag3a fd3d3f|c3f (dc).B.A TG3AB3g|fa3Ta3g fd3d3f|c3f (ag).f.e f4 f3g| f3ag3a f3ad3f|c3fA3f TG3ATB3d|{B}A3GA3F A3cc3f|d3f (ag).f.e f4f2||
MISS BROWN OF LINKWOOD'S STRATHSPEY. Scottish, Strathspey (whole time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. "Miss Brown of Linkwood's Strathspey" was composed by Elgin fiddler-composer biography:Donald Grant and published in his Collection of Strathspeys, Reels, Jigs &c. (1820-21). Miss Brown was probably a daughter of George Brown (1747-1816) of Linkwood and his wife, Margaret Clerk (d. 1808), or the next generation at Linkwood, Peter Brown and his wife Helen Leslie (d. 1873). Peter Brown was the factor [manager] of the Seafield estates of Moray and Banffshire, while Linkwood House was his family home. He had an ingenious idea to make his land more productive, and set up a system by which barley grown on his land could be distilled to make whisky, then the used up husks of the barley fed the cattle, and the cattle fertilized the land. The distillery was owned by Brown until his death in 1868, then went to the control of his heirs. It is still in existence.
See also Grant's "Mr. P. Brown of Linkwood's Strathspey."
