The Ten Pound Fiddle
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"The Ten Pound Fiddle" is a Scottish and Canadian reel in A Major.<br> The parts are played AB (Cranford, Hunter, Phillips, Skinner) or AAB (Martin).<br> It was composed by Scottish composer and fiddler James Scott Skinner (1841-1927),<br> who recorded it in 1910.<br> The 'Pound' in the title is not a weight but the British monetary unit (perhaps<br> the cost of the instrument which would be equivalent to about $1,500 USD today).<br> It was printed in Cranford's Winston Fitzgerald (1997),<br> Hunter's Fiddle Music of Scotland (1988),<br> Martin's Traditional Scottish Fiddling (2002),<br> Phillips' Fiddlecase Tunebook: British Isles (1989),<br> Skinner's The Scottish Violinist (1900).<br> It was recorded by Dave Swarbrick on Smiddyburn and Flittin' (1981),<br> Angus Chisolm on The Early Recordings of Angus Chisolm (1978),<br> J. Scott Skinner on The Strathspey King (remastered - 1975) and<br> Alex Green on Caledonian Companion (1975).<br>
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