Annotation:Sandy Grant

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SANDY GRANT. AKA – “Sandie Grant o' Battangorm.” Scottish, Reel (2/4 time). D Major (Skinner/Violinist): E Major (Skinner/Harp). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Skinner/Violinist): AAB (Skinner/Harp). Composed by biography:J. Scott Skinner and named for his friend Alexander Grant (1856-1942), inventor of the Rondello, a round fiddle, and conductor of the Highland Strathspey and Reel Society for nearly forty years (the society was begun in 1903). Grant was a native of Battangorm, Carrbridge (the origin of his nickname, "Battan") in the Highlands.

Sandy Grant of Battangorm, with his Rondell fiddle.

He was equally as passionate about fishing as he was of fiddling, and was a skilled lifelong angler, an avocation to which he also turned his inventing skills, producing a unique fishing rod known as the 'Grant Vibration Rod'. He must have been acutely sensitive to vibrations, for it is said that he once refused to attend fiddle lessons from the local school teacher because he disliked the tone of his tutor’s fiddle.

"Sandy Grant" appears in both Skinner's Scottish Violinist (1900) and Harp and Claymore (1904) collections.