Annotation:Professor Scott
X:1 T:Professor Scott (Stoneywood) C:J. Scott Skinner M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel B:Skinner – Miller o’ Hirn Collection (1881, No. 112, p. 56) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:Gmin D|{GA}G^FGA BABG|AFCF A,FCF|G^FGA BABc|dBcA BGA^F| G^FGA BABG|AFCF A,FCF|G^FGA BABc|dcBA BGG|| d|gdga bg^fg|a=fcf Afcf|g^fga bgfg|=fdcA BGGd| {ga}g^fga bgfg|a=fcf AfcA|GABc {de}d^cdg fdcA BGG||
PROFESSOR SCOTT. Scottish, Reel (cut time). G Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. "Professor Scott" was composed by Aberdeenshire fiddler-composer and Scottish dancing master wikipedia:James_Scott_Skinner (1843-1927). The name of William Scott (1822-1901), a "professor of elocution", Stoneywood (though born in Peterhead), appears in the list of patrons and subscribers to Skinner's Miller o' Hirn Collection (1881). Scott was one of Skinner's mentors, and such a kind influence on him the James Skinner professionally adopted the name 'Scott' as his middle name. Professor Scott had a long career as a "professor of dancing and teacher of elocution", and taught Skinner how to dance in the early 1860's, and was well known in horticultural world as a naturalist and botanist, and ardent collector of ferns. Scott was well-known as a poet, as well,
The Univ. of Aberdeen Skinner site records that "In later years, Scott toured the North of Scotland as a member of Skinner's concert parties, reciting poems in the Buchan dialect of North East Aberdeenshire"[1].
Skinner himself held dancing classes at the Stoneywood schoolrooms (not the Stoneywood in Falkirk, but the village of Stoneywood that is located northwest of central Aberdeen).
