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Image	Title	Item Description
JSS0152	Note on verso of Maggie Cameron	Note: Is this Tune "Maggie Cameron" or "Sandy King" See [David] Glen's Pipe Music
JSS0153	Mrs Will	Sketch of melody only, in Skinner's hand, of 'Strathspey "Mrs Will"* J. Scott Skinner. Under the first two lines of music he wrote: I don't study much, But just rattle off, no cutting or carving. And, below the second two: * 'Extempore no whistle even, hot - Please play over and if not good burn, and I'll try again - Gavin Greig would put clothes on it' (would add the arrangement). (See JSS0154). Compare with the printed version JSS0610.
JSS0154	Letter to Mr Will	Skinner's letter reads: from 'Gilbert Cottage Auchenblae 1 May Dear Mr Will, You might send on any music you don't want to me here by Thursday as we have a dance after the concert (on 5th May) hope we may have such a house as New Deer You are quite a jolly set of people and I feel disposed to grumble at my fate in being a / native of this Country Aberdeenshire ... Strathspey & Reel - Yours warmly J. Scott Skinner Shall I send you a Logie Coll: ?' Charles John Will (1867-?) was schoolmaster at New Pitsligo in the early 1900s, and a fiddle pupil of Skinner's. Skinner wrote a strathspey, 'Mrs Will' (JSS0153), for his wife. Mr Will was helpful to William Walker and others doing research into William Christie of Monquhitter, Aberdeenshire, and his family (See JSS0511).
JSS0155	Earl Grey	Manuscript of the strathspey by James Hill (b. Dundee, d. Gateshead?). 'Earl Grey' may have been written to celebrate the Prime Minister who introduced the Great Reform Bill in 1832. Or, perhaps it was for his son, the 3rd Earl Grey (1810-1884), who became Secretary of State for War.
JSS0156	Note about Earl Grey	Manuscript in Alexander Troup's hand, verso of Earl Grey. 'I am of the opinion this is an English Strathspey and the only English one that there is..... The bottom comment by Skinner reads: The Introduction of a strain of 'Fairbairns' strathspey is frequently given by Street players with bad taste.'
JSS0157	Sandie Grant o' Battangorm	Skinner's note below reads: * Violinist & friend of the composer Inverness whose son is named Scott Skinner Grant.'
JSS0158	Note on verso of Sandie Grant o' Battangorm	Manuscript in the hand of Alexander Troup. 'This is one of Mr Skinner's best composed and effective Reels. A. T.'
JSS0159	Copperbeach	Manuscript of the reel Copperbeach. Remember to press 3rd finger lightly on 1st [string?].
JSS0160	Canty Jeanie Munro	Manuscript of a 'New M.S.' strathspey. 'Canty Jeanie' 'Munro' [inserted]. 'Jeanie' was 'Miss Thompson, Violinist, Aberdeen'. In the years since Skinner had written this tune for Jeanie, she married, and became Jeanie Munro. The note [not written by Skinner] reads: 'The above is written in order to familiarise players with the more difficult keys. In B flat major the tune would be less difficult but the general effect would be lessened.'
JSS0161	Note on verso of Canty Jeanie Munro	Manuscript in the hand of Alexander Troup. 'This is the first strathspey I have seen in five sharps. I prefer B [flat] to this key for a Highland tune. A. T.'

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