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MISS HAMILTON [3]. AKA and see "Ross House." English, Reel. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA’BB’. Gibbons’ setting was originally in the key of ‘D’ major. Some similarities to “Peggy Menzies” although they differ enough to be questionably cognate.

Source for notated version: the 1823-26 music mss of papermaker and musician Joshua Gibbons (1778-1871, of Tealby, near Market Rasen, Lincolnshire Wolds) [Sumner].

Printed sources: Sumner (Lincolnshire Collections, vol. 1: The Joshua Gibbons Manuscript), 1997; p. 6.

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