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'''COUNTESS OF SEAFIELD [2], THE'''. Scottish, Strathspey (whole time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The Countess of Seafield was perhaps Caroline Henrietta Stuart (1830-1911), who married John Ogilvy-Grant, 7th Earl of Seafield, in 1850. The strathspey dedicated to her was composed by Alexander Walker, born in Rhynie, Strathbogie, | '''COUNTESS OF SEAFIELD [2], THE'''. Scottish, Strathspey (whole time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The Countess of Seafield was perhaps Caroline Henrietta Stuart (1830-1911), who married John Ogilvy-Grant, 7th Earl of Seafield, in 1850. The strathspey dedicated to her was composed by Aberdeenshire fiddler-composer [[biography:Alexander Walker]], born in Rhynie, Strathbogie, in 1819. Walker was an inventor, agriculturalist, fiddler and composer of works collected in a volume published in Aberdeen in 1866. He was employed as a gardener for Sir Charles Forbes at Castle Newe, who was also his patron. After the American Civil War, Walker emigrated to the United States, following family, and settled near Williamstown, Massachusetts, where he established a prosperous farm of his own. He continued to compose music, although his American output is now lost. This passage (from Arthur Latham Perry's '''Origins in Williamstown: A History''', 1894, p. 28 ) is thought to refer to him: | ||
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...but the Berlin road goes past pretty good farms, and the last one (the old toll-gate farm) became noted for its productiveness under the ownership of Alexander Walker and his family, canny Scotch people from Aberdeenshire; the parents married there Aug. 6, 1856. Mr. Walker could handle the fiddle bow and the surveyor's instruments with about equal facility; but as the lines fell to him in this country in prosy times and non-piping localities, the Scotch reels and strathspeys, of which he was a master and even a successful composer and publisher, slumbered for the most part on the bridge of his fiddles, of which he invented and perhaps patented a prized improvement. Nevertheless, his residence at the head of the gorge, where the Fosters had lived for three generations, threw a sort of halo of music and good cheer up and down the valley, and proved to many persons a kind of subtle attraction not only for the Pass by Mount Hopkins beyond it. | ''...but the Berlin road goes past pretty good farms, and the last one (the old toll-gate farm) became noted for its productiveness under the ownership of Alexander Walker and his'' | ||
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''facility; but as the lines fell to him in this country in prosy times and non-piping localities, the Scotch reels and strathspeys, of which he was a master and even a successful'' | |||
''composer and publisher, slumbered for the most part on the bridge of his fiddles, of which he invented and perhaps patented a prized improvement. Nevertheless, his residence at'' | |||
''the head of the gorge, where the Fosters had lived for three generations, threw a sort of halo of music and good cheer up and down the valley, and proved to many persons a kind'' | |||
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<font color=red>''Printed sources''</font> : - Walker ('''A Collection of Strathspeys, Reels, Marches, &c.'''), 1866; No. 17, p. 6. | <font color=red>''Printed sources''</font> : - Walker ('''A Collection of Strathspeys, Reels, Marches, &c.'''), 1866; No. 17, p. 6. | ||
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COUNTESS OF SEAFIELD [2], THE. Scottish, Strathspey (whole time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The Countess of Seafield was perhaps Caroline Henrietta Stuart (1830-1911), who married John Ogilvy-Grant, 7th Earl of Seafield, in 1850. The strathspey dedicated to her was composed by Aberdeenshire fiddler-composer biography:Alexander Walker, born in Rhynie, Strathbogie, in 1819. Walker was an inventor, agriculturalist, fiddler and composer of works collected in a volume published in Aberdeen in 1866. He was employed as a gardener for Sir Charles Forbes at Castle Newe, who was also his patron. After the American Civil War, Walker emigrated to the United States, following family, and settled near Williamstown, Massachusetts, where he established a prosperous farm of his own. He continued to compose music, although his American output is now lost. This passage (from Arthur Latham Perry's Origins in Williamstown: A History, 1894, p. 28 ) is thought to refer to him:
...but the Berlin road goes past pretty good farms, and the last one (the old toll-gate farm) became noted for its productiveness under the ownership of Alexander Walker and his family, canny Scotch people from Aberdeenshire; the parents married there Aug. 6, 1856. Mr. Walker could handle the fiddle bow and the surveyor's instruments with about equal facility; but as the lines fell to him in this country in prosy times and non-piping localities, the Scotch reels and strathspeys, of which he was a master and even a successful composer and publisher, slumbered for the most part on the bridge of his fiddles, of which he invented and perhaps patented a prized improvement. Nevertheless, his residence at the head of the gorge, where the Fosters had lived for three generations, threw a sort of halo of music and good cheer up and down the valley, and proved to many persons a kind of subtle attraction not only for the Pass by Mount Hopkins beyond it.