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'''JAMES SCOTT SKINNER'S WELCOME TO INVERNESS'''. AKA - "Scott Skinner's Welcome to Inverness." Scottish, March (4/4 time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. A 'double-tonic' march composed by Alexander Grant (1856-1942) in honor of his somewhat older contemporary J. Scott Skinner (1843-1927). Grant was equally passionate about fly fishing for salmon and fiddling. He was known to his family and friend as simply ‘The Battan’, and found employment variously as a ploughman, draper, hairdresser, forester and tackle maker. He learned to fiddle as a child and had a sensitive ear--so much so that it is said he once refused to attend fiddle lessons from the local school teacher because he disliked the tone of his tutor’s fiddle. This sensitivity to tone and vibration also effected the design of his famous ‘Grant’s Vibration’ range of fly rods. Grant was a first rank soloist, and led the Highland Strathspey and Reel Society from its founding in 1903 to his death in 1942. | |f_annotation='''JAMES SCOTT SKINNER'S WELCOME TO INVERNESS'''. AKA - "Scott Skinner's Welcome to Inverness," "The Strathspey King's Welcome to Inverness." Scottish, March (4/4 time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. A 'double-tonic' march composed by Alexander Grant (1856-1942) in honor of his somewhat older contemporary J. Scott Skinner (1843-1927). Grant was equally passionate about fly fishing for salmon and fiddling. He was known to his family and friend as simply ‘The Battan’, and found employment variously as a ploughman, draper, hairdresser, forester and tackle maker. He learned to fiddle as a child and had a sensitive ear--so much so that it is said he once refused to attend fiddle lessons from the local school teacher because he disliked the tone of his tutor’s fiddle. This sensitivity to tone and vibration also effected the design of his famous ‘Grant’s Vibration’ range of fly rods. Grant was a first rank soloist, and led the Highland Strathspey and Reel Society from its founding in 1903 to his death in 1942. | ||
[[File:grant.jpg|200px|thumb|left|Alexander 'Battan' Grant]] Paul Stewart Cranford has found a 1909 concert program of Grant's where the title of the tune is given as "The Strathspey King's Welcome to Inverness," and notes that it was a favorite march of Cape Breton fiddler Buddy MacMaster, who often taught it at music workshops. | |||
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|f_printed_sources=Paul Stewart Cranford ('''The Cape Breton Highland Collection'''), 2015; p. 4. | |||
|f_recorded_sources=BM-91, Buddy MacMaster - "Glencoe Hall" (1992). | |||
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Latest revision as of 04:32, 11 May 2022
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JAMES SCOTT SKINNER'S WELCOME TO INVERNESS. AKA - "Scott Skinner's Welcome to Inverness," "The Strathspey King's Welcome to Inverness." Scottish, March (4/4 time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. A 'double-tonic' march composed by Alexander Grant (1856-1942) in honor of his somewhat older contemporary J. Scott Skinner (1843-1927). Grant was equally passionate about fly fishing for salmon and fiddling. He was known to his family and friend as simply ‘The Battan’, and found employment variously as a ploughman, draper, hairdresser, forester and tackle maker. He learned to fiddle as a child and had a sensitive ear--so much so that it is said he once refused to attend fiddle lessons from the local school teacher because he disliked the tone of his tutor’s fiddle. This sensitivity to tone and vibration also effected the design of his famous ‘Grant’s Vibration’ range of fly rods. Grant was a first rank soloist, and led the Highland Strathspey and Reel Society from its founding in 1903 to his death in 1942.
