Annotation:General Wemyss of Wemyss

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GENERAL WEMYSS OF WEMYSS. Scottish, Reel. F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Composed by Nathaniel Gow. See note for "General Wemyss" for more on the person of the title. "General Wemyss," a strathspey, also has been called "General Wemyss of Wemyss," but is a different tune than Nathaniel Gow's reel.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Gow (Second Collection of Niel Gow's Reels), 1788; p. 25 (3rd edition). MacDonald (The Skye Collection), 1887; p. 190.

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