Annotation:Mrs. Douglas's Reel
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MRS. DOUGLAS'S REEL. Scottish, Reel (whole time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. "Mrs. Douglas's"[1] was composed by fiddler-composer Alexander Givan (1752-1803) of Kelso and issued in a small folio accompanied with several of his other compositions by the Edinburgh publishing concern of Gow & Shepherd c. 1810. Douglas is a common surname in the Borders region.
