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'''BOBBY CUTHBERTSON'''. Scottish (originally), Canadian; Hornpipe. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BBCCDD. A pipe hornpipe by John Wilson. The tune honors Scottish dancer Robert McNiven Cuthbertson, a native of Springburn, Glasgow, Scotland, he won his first dancing championship in 1913. World War I intervened and he joined | '''BOBBY CUTHBERTSON'''. Scottish (originally), Canadian; Hornpipe. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BBCCDD. A pipe hornpipe by John Wilson. The tune honors Scottish dancer Robert McNiven Cuthbertson, a native of Springburn, Glasgow, Scotland, he won his first dancing championship in 1913. World War I intervened and he joined the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, later serving with the Gordons. He continued to dance in the war in his leisure time and for army sponsored competitions (he won the championship of the 51st Division, the Canadian Brigade Medal and the Army Championship). Cuthbertson survived the war and continued dancing | ||
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BOBBY CUTHBERTSON. Scottish (originally), Canadian; Hornpipe. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BBCCDD. A pipe hornpipe by John Wilson. The tune honors Scottish dancer Robert McNiven Cuthbertson, a native of Springburn, Glasgow, Scotland, he won his first dancing championship in 1913. World War I intervened and he joined the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, later serving with the Gordons. He continued to dance in the war in his leisure time and for army sponsored competitions (he won the championship of the 51st Division, the Canadian Brigade Medal and the Army Championship). Cuthbertson survived the war and continued dancing
On his return to civilian life he started the habit that has become the despair of every other dancer, that of lifting 90% of the first prizes he competed for. Among these were the Northern Meeting at Inverness, the Argyllshire Gathering (six times) and the Royal Braemar Society Cup four times. He received his training from Neil Cameron, Esq. and he has, in his turn, passed on that training, with his own experience added. To A.D. Cameron and Wm. McNiven, who are among his most active competitors today (1935). He has produced a host of other dancers, some of whom are well known and others who are not so well known; but in the aggregate they must have collected the bulk of the prizes that are on offer. In action (if such a phrase can describe Bobby Cuthbertson), he is the embodiment of graceful ease that, combined with a mathematical precision, makes dancing look an effortless accomplishment, which can be acquired by anyone, is unquestionably the hallmark of supreme ability. We doubt, if there has ever been such an able dancer in Scotland, and we believe it will be may a long day before we see his equal, and we do not think we will ever see his master"
Source for notated version: Winston Fitzgerald [Cape Breton's Magazine].
Printed sources: Cape Breton's Magazine, No. 46, 1987; p. 20.
Recorded sources:
See also listing at:
Alan Snyder's Cape Breton Fiddle Recordings Index [1]
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