Annotation:Mrs. Burn Callander's Reel

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MRS. BURN CALLANDER'S REEL. Scottish, Reel (cut time). D Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Composed by Perthshire fiddler-composer biography:Duncan McKercher, the "Dunkeld Paganini." The title perhaps refers to Jacquetta Hull (1802-1864), the daughter of Col. J. T. Hull (Marpool Hall, Devon), who married in May, 1822, William Burn-Callander (d. 1854), 8th of Westertown and 4th Preston Hall. Jacquetta bore three sons and a daughter and died in May, 1864.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Duncan McKercher (A Collection of Original Stathspeys and Reels), Edinburgh, c. 1830; p. 15.

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