Annotation:Mrs. Bell's Strathspey

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MRS. BELL'S STRATHSPEY. AKA and see "Mrs. Stewart Frenich of Foss." Scottish, Strathspey (whole time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Set as a reel, the melody appears as "Mrs. Stewart Frenich of Foss" in Malcolm MacDonald's first collection of reels, pubished in 1788.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: James Aird (Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 5), Glasgow, 1801; No. 167, p. 62.

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