Annotation:Mr. R. Menzies' Strathspey

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MR. R. MENZIES' STRATHSPEY. AKA - "Robert Menzies." Scottish, Strathspey (cut or whole time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB (Athole): AABB' (Kerr). The strathspey "Robert Menzies" is credited to "D. Mc. K." by James Stewart-Robertson in The Athole Collection (1884). This can only be fiddler-composer biography:Duncan McKercher in whose 1824 collection the tune appears as "Mr. R. Menzies' Strathspey."

Additional notes

Source for notated version: -

Printed sources : - Kerr (Merry Melodies, vol. 2), c. 1880’s; No. 29, p. 6. McKercher ( A Collection of Original Strathspeys and Reels), 1824; p. 13. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; p. 32.

Recorded sources: -

See also listing at:
Alan Snyder's Cape Breton Fiddle Recordings Index [1]



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