Issue 2601: Mrs Wilson

Object

Mrs Wilson (Tune)

Submitter

Finlay Forbes

Assigned to

Murrough Landon

Priority

Normal

Disposition

Accepted

Description

This tune appears as “Mrs Wilson’s Reel” in Donald Grant’s collection, where the authorship is attributed to “Mr Laughlan” (See Page 123 of the Highland Music Trust’s reprint included in “Highland Collections”). Bobby Crowe makes some minor adjustments to the melody line but it is clearly the same tune. What is more interesting about Crowe’s rendition is that it is played at what would now be considered “half speed” (i.e. using one bar of the written tune to cover two bars of the dance as in The Duke of Perth).

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