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MRS. STEWART NICHOLSON. Scottish, "Slowish" or Slow Strathspey. E Flat Major (Athole, Gow): D Major (Hunter). Standard tuning (fiddle) AAB. Composed biography:Nathaniel Gow (1763-1831).

Source for notated version: Carlin (The Gow Collection), 1986; No. 192. Gow (Fourth Collection of Neil Gow’s Reels), 2nd ed., originally 1800; p. 6. Hunter (Fiddle Music of Scotland), 1988; No. 110. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; p. 274.

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