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LEFT HANDED FIDDLER, THE. Scottish, Reel. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Composed by J. Scott Skinner and named for George Taylor of Aberdeen, whose son (George I. Talyor) also was a left-handed fiddler (who used a normally strung and tuned instrument, and not a left-handed violin). Skinner's was familiar with left handed fiddlers, as his father became one after an accident with machinery that left his right hand mangled (for this reason it is sometimes said that he composed it for his father). The minor-mode stathspey by J. Murdoch Henderson, also called "Captain's Pledge (The)", was composed as "George I. Taylor." Henderson thought the younger Taylor's "interpretation of strathspeys in the minor mode [was] particularly fine." See also the similar Irish tune "Columba Ward's."

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Hunter (Fiddle Music of Scotland), 1988; No. 240. Skinner (The Scottish Violinist), 1900; p. 5. Skinner (Harp and Claymore), 1904; p. 95.

Recorded sources:

See also listings at:
Alan Snyder's Cape Breton Fiddle Recording Index [1]
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [2]

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-'''LEFT HANDED FIDDLER, THE.''' Scottish, Reel. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Composed by J. Scott Skinner and named for George Taylor of Aberdeen, whose son (George I. Talyor) also was a left-handed fiddler. Skinner's was familiar with left handed fiddlers, as his father became one after an accident with machinery that left his right hand mangled (for this reason it is sometimes said that he composed it for his father). The minor-mode stathspey called "[[Captain's Pledge (The)]]", is sometimes known as "[[George I. Taylor]]." See also the similar Irish tune "[[Columba Ward's]]."
+'''LEFT HANDED FIDDLER, THE.''' Scottish, Reel. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Composed by J. Scott Skinner and named for George Taylor of Aberdeen, whose son (George I. Talyor) also was a left-handed fiddler (who used a normally strung and tuned instrument, and not a left-handed violin). Skinner's was familiar with left handed fiddlers, as his father became one after an accident with machinery that left his right hand mangled (for this reason it is sometimes said that he composed it for his father). The minor-mode stathspey by J. Murdoch Henderson, also called "[[Captain's Pledge (The)]]", was composed as "[[George I. Taylor]]." Henderson thought the younger Taylor's "interpretation of strathspeys in the minor mode [was] particularly fine." See also the similar Irish tune "[[Columba Ward's]]."
 [[File:skinner.jpg|200px|thumb|left|James Scott Skinner]]
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