Scottish fiddling, even to many an untrained ear, can be distinguished from other Celtic and folk fiddling styles by its particular precisionof execution and energyin the delivery. The style has a very large repertoire consisting of a great variation of rhythms and key signatures, arguably more than in related styles. There is also a strong link to the playing of traditional Scottish bagpipes which is better known throughout the world and is a chapter of its own.
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“Better wear out shoes than sheets.”
—18th-century Scottish proverb, collected in J. Kelly, Complete Collection of Scottish Proverbs (1721)
“I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it’s good fun.”
—Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)