Annotation:Mrs. Hamilton of Sundrum's (Junr.) Reel
X:1 T:Mrs. Hamilton of Sundrum's (Junr.) Reel M:C L:1/8 R:Reel B:John French – Collection of New Strathspeys, Reels, etc. (1801) N:Dedicated to Mrs. Boswell of Auchinleck N:Published by Gow & Shepherd, “for behoof of Mr. French’s widow and children.” K:Amin E|ABcd ecBA|G2 Bd gdBG|ABcd egdc|BAGB A/A/A A:| g|ae (f/e/d/c/) (ae)e(c|d)egc TBAGg|ae (f/e/d/c/) (ae)e(c|B)AGB A/A/A (Ag)| aece ae(f/e/d/c/)|gdBd gd (e/d/c/B/)|cdea gedc|TBAGB A/A/A A||
MRS. HAMILTON of SUNDRUM'S (JUNR.) REEL. Scottish, Reel (whole time). A Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Composed by fiddler-composer biography:John French (1752–1803). It appears in his A Collection of New Strathspeys, Reels &c. (c. 1801), dedicated to Mrs. Boswell of Auchinleck, and published by Gow & Shepherd, “for behoof of Mr. French’s widow and children.” The phrase may indicate that French was incapacitated, or perhaps dead, in which case either the dates of publication of the dates of his death are faulty.
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In the village of Joppa on the main road from Ayr to Cumnock there were at one time a number of Negroes brought from the plantations in West Indies, belonging to John Hamilton of Sundrum. They intermarriedwith the local inhabitants, and traces of Negro in the hair and countenance could be observed for some generations.
See also the first strain of an untitled reel ("Reel (59)") in Book 2 (No. 123) of County Leitrim fiddler and piper Stephen Grier's (c. 1824-1894) large music manuscript collection. The second strains are different.