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''Are the bonniest haughs on the lang run o' spey.''<br> | ''Are the bonniest haughs on the lang run o' spey.''<br> | ||
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The River Spey is famous angling river in Morayshire, Scotland. A ''haugh'' is a Scots word for a low-lying meadow by the side of a river. | The River Spey is famous angling river in Morayshire, Scotland. A ''haugh'' is a Scots word for a low-lying meadow by the side of a river. There was an Alexander Reid (1854-1928) contemporaneous with Skinner who was an internationally influential art dealer in Glasgow, a friend of James Abbott McNeill Whistler and Vincent Van Gogh, but whether he is Skinner's dedicatee is unkown. | ||
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HAUGHS OF SPEY, THE. Scottish, Pastorale or Slow Air (whole time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Composed by Scottish fiddler-composer and dancing master biography:J. Scott Skinner (1843-1927) and printed in his Logie Collection (1888). Skinner dedicated it to Alexander Reid, and appended this old rhyme in the margin above:
Dipple, Dundurcas, Dandaleith an' Daley
Are the bonniest haughs on the lang run o' spey.
The River Spey is famous angling river in Morayshire, Scotland. A haugh is a Scots word for a low-lying meadow by the side of a river. There was an Alexander Reid (1854-1928) contemporaneous with Skinner who was an internationally influential art dealer in Glasgow, a friend of James Abbott McNeill Whistler and Vincent Van Gogh, but whether he is Skinner's dedicatee is unkown.