Annotation:Mr. Peter MacGrigor
X:1 T:Mr. Peter MacGrigor's (Park Villa, Strathdon) N:Alexander Walker attributed this tune to himself in his 1866 collection, N:but it is a version of Robert Mackinthosh's "Miss Campbell's Reel." M:C L:1/8 R:Strathspey B:Walker - Collection of Strathspeys, Reels, Marches, &c. (1866, p. 51) Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion F:http://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105875675?mode=zoom K:F |:d|c<FA>F D>FC>F|B,>DA,>F G<G,G,>d|c<FA>F D>FC>A|B>G A/B/c/B/ A<FF>d| c<FA>F D>FC>F|B,>DA,>F G<G,G,>B|A<FA>c B/c/d/B/ c>B|A<FG>E (F2F)|| g|a>ff>c d<fc>A|B>dA>c d<GG>f|a>ff>c d<fd>B|A<FG>E (F2 F>)f| a>ff>c d<fc>A|(3BdB (3AcA G>gg>b|a<fg<e f<cd<B|A<F{A}G>E [A,2F2][A,F]||
MR. PETER MACGRIGOR. AKA and see "Miss Campbell's Reel." Scottish, Strathspey (whole time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The composition of "Mr. Peter MacGrigor" is attributed to Aberdeenshire fiddler-composer biography:Alexander Walker as it appears in his 1866 collection, however, it is a strathspey setting of Edinburgh fiddler-composer biography:Robert Mackintosh's reel "Miss Campbell's Reel", published in his Fourth Collection (1804).
Walker's title honors Peter MacGregor (1805-1879), son of Master Blacksmith John McGregor, who resided at Parkvilla, parish of Strathdon, which was, "in 1861, a farm and four other houses. Parkvilla later became a common name for the whole settlement now called Roughpark, and the shopkeeper used to publish calendars with his shop name and then the address at Parkvilla, Strathdon" [Adam Watson, Place Names in Much of North-East Scotland, 2013]. In Ordnance Survey Name Books, Aberdeenshire 1865-1871, MacGregor's is listed as one of the authorities for local spellings, and his occupation is given as "Carpenter, Parkvilla". Peter was listed as a Master Carpenter in his death registry, which also records that he married Isabella Simpson and died of Dysentery. He evidently had sons, two of whom were William and Peter, who came from "a family of carpenters who lived in the village with the surname McGregor." Young Peter was born about 1878, and emigrated to New Zealand sometime around the 1920's, settling in Wellington.
