The Island Of Mull jig

I collected this tune from Nigel Gatherer’s Glasgow Slow Session.

https://www.nigelgatherer.com/tunes/tunes/T/TopBL.html

But where did I get it? Mm, good question… It is supposed to have been written by the Earl of Eglinton [1], and first published in Niel Gow’s Fourth Repository (c1817). More recently it was recorded by Jim Cameron’s Band in 1952. The original was in A, I changed it to D.

[1] = The 12th Earl, Hugh Montgomerie (1739-1819) who played ‘cello and was a known composer of dance tunes; he published his own collection of tunes in 1796. He lived at Coilsfield House, the subject of one of Nathaniel Gow’s great tunes ( https://thesession.org/tunes/8132 ). Robert Burns was well aquainted with the family, and even mentioned “sodger Hugh”. Two of Burns’s romantic interests resided at Coilsfield: Mary Campbell, a byre woman, was the famous ’Highland Mary,‘ while ’Montgomerie’s Peggy’ - to whom the bard passed love letters in church - was the housekeeper there.