Annotation:Tyndrum
X:1 T:Tyndrum T:Taigh-an-droma L:1/8 M:6/4 S:Fraser Collection Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:Bmin F|B3c d2 [D4F4] [d2f2]|e2d2c2 d B3F2|B3c d2 [D4F4] (FE)|E2F2 [F2^A2] [D4B4]:| (B>c)|d4 (cB) e4 (dc)|(f3 gf^e) f2 d2 (B>c)|d4 cB e4 (dc)|f3 (gf^e) f4| a4 (fd) g4 (ec)|f4 dB c2 ^A2 F2|f3 e d2 e2d2c2|(c2f2) [F2^A2] [D4B4]||
TYNDRUM. AKA and see "Taigh an droma." Scottish, Slow Air (6/4 time). B Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. "The editor has associated this melody with an event which involved all his connections in the deepest affliction, the death of James Fraser, Esq., of Gorthleck, his maternal uncle, by the overturning of his carriage near Tyndrum, whereby his life was lost, and his lady had a leg broken. He was well known as the best and firmest of friends, with a heart liberal and kind in the extreme, ever ready to undertake the weightiest obligations for those he thought deserving, or who appeared industrious. His sudden death was, therefore, a severe blow, not only to his relations, but to numbers unconnected with any degree of affinity with him, and a general loss to the country. It is a strange coincidence with the mention of his name in this place, that the very last night the editor spent in his company, he found him set, with one or two select friends, extorting from the editor's father the songs and anecdotes of which this work consists, and the party in the highest glee possible. That very night added considerably both to the airs and anecdotes now furnished" (Fraser). Alburger thinks the tune is "almost certainly" Capt. Simon Fraser's.
