Annotation:Pipe Major Jim Christie of Wick
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PIPE MAJOR JIM CHRISTIE OF WICK. Scottish (originally), Canadian; Pipe March or Reel. Canada; Cape Breton, Prince Edward Island. A Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB (Perlman): AABB’CCDD’ (Martin). One of the earlier compositions by Scottish fiddler and composer Addie Harper of Wick, Caithness, northern Scotland. The title honors Jim Christie [1] (1908–1988), founder and Pipe Major of the Wick Girls' Pipe Band who toured in Scotland and abroad. Harper says: "He was a very good friend and I relied upon him greatly for musical information." The tune was introduced to Canadian fiddling by Cape Breton fiddle master Buddy MacMaster.
Source for notated version: Gus Longaphie (b. 1914, Little Harbor, North-East Kings County, Prince Edward Island) [Perlman].
Printed sources:
Harper (My Fiddle and Me), 1998; p. 3.
Martin (Ceol na Fidhle, vol. 3), 1988; p. 43.
Perlman (The Fiddle Music of Prince Edward Island), 1996; p. 105.
Recorded sources:
See also listing at:
Alan Snyder's Cape Breton Fiddle Recordings Index [2]