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'''PETER LAING (The Elgin Centenarian).''' Scottish, Strathspey. F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Composed by the great Scots fiddler-composer J. Scott Skinner (1843-1927) in honor of a blacksmith, Peter Laing, who may have worked at Botriphnie House, Banffshire, a 'shooting-seat' [sporting estate] for Admiral Duff' in the 1840s (according to the Univ. of Aberdeen's Skinner site). Skinner also composed the companion reel, "[[Blacksmith | '''PETER LAING (The Elgin Centenarian).''' Scottish, Strathspey. F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Composed by the great Scots fiddler-composer J. Scott Skinner (1843-1927) in honor of a blacksmith, Peter Laing, who may have worked at Botriphnie House, Banffshire, a 'shooting-seat' [sporting estate] for Admiral Duff' in the 1840s (according to the Univ. of Aberdeen's Skinner site). Skinner also composed the companion reel, "[[Blacksmith o' Botriphnie (The)]]" for him. | ||
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PETER LAING (The Elgin Centenarian). Scottish, Strathspey. F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Composed by the great Scots fiddler-composer J. Scott Skinner (1843-1927) in honor of a blacksmith, Peter Laing, who may have worked at Botriphnie House, Banffshire, a 'shooting-seat' [sporting estate] for Admiral Duff' in the 1840s (according to the Univ. of Aberdeen's Skinner site). Skinner also composed the companion reel, "Blacksmith o' Botriphnie (The)" for him.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Skinner (The Scottish Violinist), 1900; p. 15. Skinner (Harp and Claymore), 1904; p. 125.
Recorded sources:
See also listing at:
See Skinner's handwritten notation for the tune at the Univ. of Aberdeen's Skinner site [1]