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'''BRIDGE OF BRECHIN, THE'''. Scottish, Strathspey. F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. One of the better compositions of Joseph Lowe (1796–1866), a good fiddler, composer and dancing master, who taught dancing at Brechin with his brother Robert. Later Lowe taught at Inverness, before finally moving to Edinburgh. He published a collection in six volumes from 1844-1845. His success among the Highland lairds (to whose families he taught music and dancing) was enhanced by his skills as a wrestler and boxer, and by his fly-fishing acumen--they "would wager upon his head against some of their gillies (young men) on one hand, and ask for some of his nicely-dressed flies on the other" (Baptie '''Musical Scotland''', 1894). Lowe was also the teacher of Scottish dancing and music to the Royal Family in Balmoral and Windsor. | '''BRIDGE OF BRECHIN, THE'''. Scottish, Strathspey. F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. One of the better compositions of [[Biography:Joseph Lowe]] (1796–1866), a good fiddler, composer and dancing master, who taught dancing at Brechin with his brother Robert. Later Lowe taught at Inverness, before finally moving to Edinburgh. He published a collection in six volumes from 1844-1845. His success among the Highland lairds (to whose families he taught music and dancing) was enhanced by his skills as a wrestler and boxer, and by his fly-fishing acumen--they "would wager upon his head against some of their gillies (young men) on one hand, and ask for some of his nicely-dressed flies on the other" (Baptie '''Musical Scotland''', 1894). Lowe was also the teacher of Scottish dancing and music to the Royal Family in Balmoral and Windsor. | ||
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BRIDGE OF BRECHIN, THE. Scottish, Strathspey. F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. One of the better compositions of Biography:Joseph Lowe (1796–1866), a good fiddler, composer and dancing master, who taught dancing at Brechin with his brother Robert. Later Lowe taught at Inverness, before finally moving to Edinburgh. He published a collection in six volumes from 1844-1845. His success among the Highland lairds (to whose families he taught music and dancing) was enhanced by his skills as a wrestler and boxer, and by his fly-fishing acumen--they "would wager upon his head against some of their gillies (young men) on one hand, and ask for some of his nicely-dressed flies on the other" (Baptie Musical Scotland, 1894). Lowe was also the teacher of Scottish dancing and music to the Royal Family in Balmoral and Windsor.
Printed source: Kerr (Merry Melodies), vol. 2; No. 195, p. 22.
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