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| Image | Title | Item Description |
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Miss Flora Macdonald | Skinner has written this strathspey in the bagpipe idiom - that is, in an attempt to reproduce the way a piper would play a tune, including the grace notes. He quickly realised that this was a style of writing that he was good at - his'pipe strathspeys and reels have always been popular. |
 JSS0735 |
Bonnie Banchory | Banchory was Skinner's birthplace. This cheerful, yet gentle melody can be heard on the video clip vc20. |
 JSS0736 |
Mr John Brown | John Brown found fame as Queen Victoria's Scottish aide. Skinner, who had taught dancing at Balmoral, knew Brown well. |
 JSS0737 |
Miss Sutherland Gunn | The Skinner family lived and taught in the area around Elgin (where Miss Sutherland Gunn lived) for many years. |
 JSS0738 |
Carnies Canter | Skinner wrote this excellent and still popular reel 'Carnie's Canter' for Aberdonian William Carnie (b. 1824). He was a Kirk Precentor, and journalist (the Aberdeen Herald, The Times, and The Scotsman), who wrote the words for Skinner's 'To ane far awa' for the Harp and Claymore (see JSS0059, JSS0060). |
 JSS0739 |
The Miller o' Hirn's Wife | The title completes a family dedication. The Miller o' Hirn himself (Mr Johnstone), was a friend of Skinner's father, William. Skinner notes that this strathspey has been composed on the same model as The Miller o' Hirn. The rhythms of the two melodies are very close. |
 JSS0740 |
THe Shakins o' the Pocky | This strathspey was jointly composed by Skinner and his mentor, Peter Milne of Tarland. |
 JSS0741 |
The Brig o' Feugh | The Brig o' Feugh is at Banchory, where Skinner was born. |
 JSS0742 |
Professor Scott | Professor Scott was another of Skinner's mentors. He taught Skinner to dance in the early 1860s. Skinner adopted Scott's name as part of his own professional name. In later years, Scott toured the North of Scotland as a member of Skinner's concert parties, reciting poems in the Buchan dialect of North East Aberdeenshire. |
 JSS0743 |
Title page, The Elgin Collection | Skinner originally planned that the Elgin Collection should be issued in four parts. As it was, only the first part was ever issued. |
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