Annotation:Mr. Charles Oliphant Gasks Strathspey

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X:1 T:Mr. Charles Oliphant Gasks Strathspey M:C| L:1/16 C:John Bowie R:Strathspey B: Six Favorite New Tunes, Four composed by John Bowie, Perth (c. 1789, p. 2) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:C G2|c3ecG3 c2ef g2e2|c3dBG3 Ad3{e}d4|c3dcG3 c3de2f2|g3a gaTgf Tec3c2:| (ef)|g3ag2f2 ec3gc3|fd3 {f}e2dc Bd3- d2ef|g3aTg2f2 ec3gc3|fd3 {ef}g3f Tec3 c2ef| g3aTg2f2 ec3gc3|fd3 {f}e2dc Bd3 {e}d2cB|Ac3Gc3 Fc3Eg3|fd3 {ef}g3f ec3c2||



MR. CHARLES OLIPHANT (of) GASK'S STRATHSPEY. Scottish, Strathspey (cut time). C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Composed by Perthshire fiddler-composer biography:John Bowie. Charles Oliphanat of Gask, Perthshire, was born in 1772 and died a young man in 1789, the son of Laurence Oliphant, 7th of Gask and Margaret Robertson. He would have been about age 17 when John Bowie issued this strathspey.


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Printed sources : - John Bowie (Six Favorite New Tunes), c. 1789; p. 2.






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