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|f_annotation='''CAPTAIN MENZIES (CARR-BRIDGE).'''  Scottish, Reel (cut time). A Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. "Captain Menzies" was composed by Aberdeenshire fiddler-composer and dancing master [[wikipedia:James_Scott_Skinner]] (1843-1927). Captain Menzies was a gentleman farmer, and a one-time judge at a fiddle competition mentioned by Skinner in his autobiography:
|f_annotation='''CAPTAIN MENZIES (CARR-BRIDGE).'''  Scottish, Reel (cut time). A Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. "Captain Menzies" was composed by Aberdeenshire fiddler-composer and dancing master [[wikipedia:James_Scott_Skinner]] (1843-1927). Captain Menzies of Carrbridge, Inverness-shire,  was a gentleman farmer, and a one-time judge at a fiddle competition mentioned by Skinner in his posthumously published autobiography<ref>J. Scott Skinner, '''My Life and Adventures''', 1932, p. 19.</ref>:
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''There were eleven entries from all parts, including Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow. Six''
''country gentlemen were the judges--namely Cluny MacPherson, Rodrick Kemp (Talisker),''
''Captain Menzies (Carrbridge), Rev. Dr. MacGregor, Major Rose, and W.F. Wisdom (secretary).'' 
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|f_printed_sources=Skinner (''' Miller o’ Hirn Collection'''), 1881; No. 80, p. 42<span></span>
|f_printed_sources=Skinner (''' Miller o’ Hirn Collection'''), 1881; No. 80, p. 42<span></span>
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CAPTAIN MENZIES (CARR-BRIDGE). Scottish, Reel (cut time). A Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. "Captain Menzies" was composed by Aberdeenshire fiddler-composer and dancing master wikipedia:James_Scott_Skinner (1843-1927). Captain Menzies of Carrbridge, Inverness-shire, was a gentleman farmer, and a one-time judge at a fiddle competition mentioned by Skinner in his posthumously published autobiography[1]:

There were eleven entries from all parts, including Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow. Six country gentlemen were the judges--namely Cluny MacPherson, Rodrick Kemp (Talisker), Captain Menzies (Carrbridge), Rev. Dr. MacGregor, Major Rose, and W.F. Wisdom (secretary).


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Printed sources : - Skinner ( Miller o’ Hirn Collection), 1881; No. 80, p. 42






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  1. J. Scott Skinner, My Life and Adventures, 1932, p. 19.