Annotation:Miss Eliza Forsyth
X:1 T:Miss Eliza Forsyth’s Strathspey M:C| L:1/8 R:G B: John Morison - A Collection of New Strathspey Reels, with a few favourite Marches (Edinburgh, c. 1797, No. 3) N:Organist and fiddler Morison (1772-1848) was from Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, the easternmost point in Scotland, N:on the North Sea. Alburger notes that failing fortunes forced him to diversify: he also organized balls and ran a ship's chandlery. F: https://web-cdn.org/s/153/file/Free-Downloads/John-Morison/Morison_J.pdf K:G g|dB GA/B/ AFAB|cedB GABg|dB GA/B/ AFAB|cedB G2 Gg| dB GA/B/ AFAB|cedB GABb|dBGD EFGA|{c}BA/G/ {B}AG/F/ G2 Gd|| gage dBGg|edge abaf|gage dBGB|ce d/c/B/A/ G2 Gd| gage dBGg|edge abag|ba/g/ ag/f/ gf/e/ dB|cedB G2G||
MISS ELIZA FORSYTH. AKA - "Miss Eliza Forsyth's Strathspey." Scottish, Strathspey. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. "Miss Eliza Forsyth" was composed by John Morison (1772-1848), a fiddler and, for a time, organist at St. Peter's Chapel, Peterhead. Morison was from Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, the easternmost point of Scotland and a port town on the North Sea. He had a small fiddle band for playing dances, but he supported himself, as many musicians did, with diversification. Alburger notes he also organized balls and ran a ship's chandlery; he also tuned pianos and organs and copied out music, but eventually he went bankrupt (at least once). Morison published two collections; the first around 1797 and the second in 1815
