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 | | As a result, vast quantities of new fiddle music were being written all through Burns’ life -- reels, strathspeys, Scots measures, hornpipes, slow airs, variations -- and specialist fiddle-composers were emerging into national prominence -- Marshall, Gow and his four sons, McGlashan, Mackintosh. |
 | | It was inevitable that Burns, in his quest for good tunes to write words to, should have kept a keen eye on who was composing what, and had a go at playing the fiddle himself. |
 | | The strathspey has to be slightly adjusted for singing -- the birls replaced by Scotch snaps, the repeats omitted, the whole a little slowed down -- but once this is done the two bond completely. |
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