Annotation:Carnegie's Welcome to Scotland

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 CARNEGIE'S WELCOME TO SCOTLAND. Scottish, March (4/4 time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Composed by Scots fiddler-composer J. Scott Skinner (1842-1927). Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919) was one of the world's richest men when he returned to his birthplace in Dumfermline, Scotland, in 1881. He emigrated with his family to the United States in 1849, at the age of 14, settling first in the slums of Allegheny, Pennsylvania. Thirty Three years later Carnegie had built the largest steel company in the country and brought his mother home to Scotland in triumph. Skinner's hand-written manuscript copy of his composition includes the note '"Mr Carnegie is the possessor of Macpherson The Freebooters Violin. glorious thing the distribution of wealth" (see "MacPherson's Lament" for more on MacPherson). Source for notated version: Printed sources: Skinner (Harp and Claymore), 1904; p. 34. Recorded sources:

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