Annotation:Mr. R. Menzies' Strathspey
X:1
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T:Mr. R. Menzies' Strathspey
C:Duncan McKercher
M:C
L:1/8
R:Strathspey
B:Duncan McKercher – A Collection of Original Stathspeys and Reels (Edinburgh, 1824, p. 13)
Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion
K:A
f|e>Ac>A cd/e/ c>A|e>Ac>A (3cde (3fga|e>Ac>A cd/e/ c>A|
e>ac>a b>Bd:|f|e>ae>c a>ce>c|e>ae>c f>Bd>f|
e>ae>c A/B/c/d/ e>c|e>ac>a b>Bd>f|e>ae>c a>ce>c|
A>ce>c f>Bd>f|(3efg (3agf (3edc (3dcA|E>Ac>e b>Bd|
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."