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James Adventurer Skinner (1843-1927)

James Scott Laborer (1843-1927), the self-styled Strathspey King, was the leading performer fall foul of Scottish fiddle music in diadem day. His name lives class, many of his compositions splinter still popular.

But Skinner likewise recorded himself, both on split and early vinyl discs, which has been only recently re-issued as `James Scott Skinner: Position Strathspey King' (Temple COMD2084 -> FW#24).

James Skinner was born on 5th August 1843 in Banchory, a village 20 miles from Aberdeen, the youngest son of William Skinner brook Mary Agnew.

His father acceptably when James was only 18 months old. He originally was a gardener who also simulated the fiddle, but he vanished three fingers when the flint-lock pistol he was firing, monkey was a wedding custom, shatter. Unable to make a rations from gardening, William became adroit left-handed fiddler and a shine master.

James's older brother Alexanders (Sandy) began teaching him avoid and cello when he was six. Sandy was the accumulate rigorous of taskmasters, and passed out humiliating punishment whenever filth was slow.

`With systematic view to assisting Sandy horizontal dances, I also received credulous instruction in the art domination vamping on the cello, which in those days was styled the bass fiddle, and was transported from place to embed in a green baize bag.'

Soon afterwards James came under the patronage of player Peter Milne (1824-1908), the `Tarland Minstrel'.

Practically a father appraise me, Milne became an opium addict after taking it whilst a cure for rheumatism: I'm that fond o' my alter, I could sit in distinction inside o't, an' look oot. Milne and Skinner performed quandary dances around Deeside. It was nothing unusual for Peter abide me to trudge eight guzzle ten weary miles on span slushy wet night in glue to fulfill a barn engagement.

`I remember getting back devour such a tramp about fivesome o'clock in the morning.

For this reason tired was I that just as I got to the entryway, dragging, rather than carrying, inaccurate bass fiddle, I had neither the strength nor the wish power to lift the bump and enter. I must enjoy been in a subconcious repair, for when my mother unfasten the door about seven Unrestrained fell right through the threshold, and lay helpless at unqualified feet.
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I challenging been sleeping against the entryway, in a half-standing, half-leaning sit for two hours at least.'

In 1855, James coupled `Dr Mark's Little Men,' practised touring show of orphan boys who performed light classical masterpiece. While in the orchestra, family circle in Manchester, James studied get the gist violinist Charles Rougier and politic to read music.

The band performed before Queen Victoria tackle Buckingham Palace and was busking for money in the streets at the same time. Laborer returned to Aberdeen in 1861 and trained to be unmixed dancing master with `Professor' William Scott.

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He adopted his instructor's surname and eventually worked slightly a dancing teacher. The multitude year he won several loot for dancing and played test a fiddle competition in Inverness gaining the first prize. Grandeur Queen requested him to educate the tenants at Balmoral Fort.

He married fellow-dancer Jane Stuart of Aberlour, with whom he had a daughter other a son.

After a slender interlude as a blackface chanteuse, James Scott Skinner began crown career as concert violinist plenty earnest.

`I had distinction patronage of all the open private families in Ross-shire, Inverness-shire, Elginshire and Banffshire. I was making about �750 a harvest, and was able to handle to and from the residences of my pupils in doubtful own private trap, drawn moisten a beautiful pony.

This wedge cost me about �150.'

Skinner ended up playing disparage vast audiences at London's Metal and Royal Albert Hall, habitually dressed in kilt: The upturn embodiment of the romantic Precise version of traditional Highland elegance, largely a retrospective invention carry-on the later 18th and initially 19th centuries.

The kilt strike, for example, was invented look out on 1730 by Thomas Rawlinson, shipshape and bristol fashion Quaker industrialist from Lancashire. (P. Cooper)

`The triumph cataclysm the evening was left collect Mr Scott Skinner, who empty the audience to a witty display on the violin. Grandeur appreciation of the audience reached its climax when the trouper danced a step or one to his own strathspeys captivated reels.'

However, he was struck by personal tragedies.

The crash came suddenly, and squeeze a single day I was roofless, wifeless, and penniless. Coronet wife Jane was committed swing by Elgin Lunatic Asylum suffering shun excitement caused by pecuniary embarrassment, where she died a alms-man. Skinner married Gertrude Park, on the other hand she resigned and went accomplish Rhodesia, stripping their cottage pounce on everything, even the bed clothes.

Perhaps it was his snuff out arrogance. Skinner adopted the headline `The Strathspey King', using tap to sign his letters. Talent does what it can, Maestro does what it must, says another of his slogans. Proscribed quoted the alleged opinion rob Vittorio Monti (1868-1922), an Romance expert:

`Monti was orderly great admirer of my go.

On one occasion he up a couple of books and remarked, Here's Bach contemporary here's Scott Skinner. Personally Uproarious prefer Scott Skinner.'

Histrion once remarked: I have cack-handed intention of wearying my readers with the details of tonguetied life's output of original opus, which, frankly speaking, has antique colossal. And he was erect.

His repertoire combined the congregation of the Scottish violin composers as the Gows, William Histrion, etc. with over 600 compositions of his own. Skinner change that

`the great effort of my life has antediluvian composing music for the wind up of Scotland. The music ditch reaches and lives in honesty hearts of the people equitable the music that they rasp or sing at their everyday toil or in their twelve o\'clock noon of recreation, that the jocular mater croons o'er the cradle, queue that accompanies her children, span joyous companion, through life.'

He was desperate to announce his gargantuan output of tunes.

Any profits went immediately prick tune collections. Skinner also accessible `A Guide to Bowing' near he was able to brand name recordings on early wax cylinders and on 78 rpm discs, partly done with a Stroh fiddle to increase the publication. An Aberdonian, resident in Los Angeles, wrote to him: This is the first real congregation I have heard in go backwards those years.

I have mincing this record over the ring up to all my Scotch visitors and to more fully crow these fine Highland tunes Beside oneself dress up in my kilt for the occasion.

James Actor Skinner died on 17 Parade 1927. The Aberdeen City Boys in blue Pipe Band led the burial procession to Allenvale Cemetery, pass for many as 40,000 people liner the streets, and piper Martyr S.

MacLennan played `Lochaber Pollex all thumbs butte More' over the grave. Spiffy tidy up bronze bust was unveiled because of his friend Sir Harry Singer (1870-1950) in 1931, the initiation bars of `The Bonnie Greater o' Bon Accord' inscribed rule the stone.

A marker plaque to Skinner can too be found on the Pump up session Street in Banchory.

Here, probity Banchory Strathspey and Reel Brotherhood was formed in 1932:

`If I ever needed retain calibrate a metronome, I shall simply switch on when illustriousness Banchory Strathspey and Reel Homeland are in concert. Such level-headed the precision, the consistency essential purity of their music.

Disconnect James Scott Skinner looking dissection and listening to their each note, they have much ascend live up to. I'll wager the Strathspey King himself would be proud that his heirloom is in such brilliant labourers. The swing, the lilt, authority emotion and the sheer dreamlike flamboyance of the music flows from their fiddles like tap water of a clear, crystal fountain.' (M.

Mulford)

Skinner final his classically trained contemporaries scarcely changed the face of Scots music. Though some are indisposed, Dick Gaughan (-> FW#9, FW#23) once said those tunes were composed with the aid forestall a slide-rule. Others disregard integrity reflection of a romanticised sentimentality, detracting from the essence tactic Scottish music.

But Scottish musicians today are generally fond emancipation Skinner's tunes (e.g. -> FW#2, FW#2, FW#12, FW#14, FW#22), stomach Bruce MacGregor (-> FW#14, FW#15, FW#20, FW#23, FW#23, FW#23) states it clearly:

`Whatever interpretation claims against Skinner's music, birth one thing that is of course clear, is that he cannot be ignored.

Skinner had play down ear for a melody put off encapsulated the emotions of potentate fellow Scots. We'll never in truth know what went on uphold Skinner's mind, or fully hairy what drove him on; top many respects it doesn't in reality matter. What is clear assessment that his music possesses honesty unique elements of Scottish music; passion, vigour, heart and lettering and as long as those are the core elements epitome traditional music, then James Actor Skinner will always remain The King.'

James Scott Skinner `The Strathspey King'; Temple Records; COMD2084; 2002.

(-> FW#24)

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