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NIEL GOW (1727-1807)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 298 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NIEL
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GOW (1727-1807)  , Scottish musician of humble
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parent-
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age, famous as a violinist and player of reels, but more so for the
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part he played in preserving the old melodies of
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Scotland . His compositions, and those of his four sons, Nathaniel, the most famous (1763-1831),
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William (1751-1791),
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Andrew (176o-1803), and
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John (1764-1826), formed the "
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Gow Collection," comprising various volumes edited by
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Niel and his sons, a valuable repository of Scottish traditional airs . The most important of Niel's sons was Nathaniel, who is remembered as the author of the well-known " Caller Herrin," taken from the fishwives' cry, a tune to which words were afterwards written by
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Nairne .

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