Annotation:Tarland Memories
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TARLAND MEMORIES. AKA ‑ "George Rose Wood." Scottish, Slow Air (4/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. "Tarland Memories" is one of the last compositions of Scots fiddler Peter Milne (1824-1908), born in Kincardine O'Neil and self-taught in his teens, who was one of wikipedia:James_Scott_Skinner's_teachers and playing partner. Milne performed in theaters until his opium addiction reduced him to busking on ferryboats crossing the Firth of Forth, until the road bridge was built and this income too was denied him. Milne died destitute in a mental institution, a victim of an addiction contracted by taking Laudanum (an opium derivative) for an injury.
The alternate title is "George Rose Wood," named for J. Scott Skinner's chief concert agent from 1922‑1925, the end of his career (for whom see Skinner’s “Rosewood”). Wood, from Banff, was known throughout the north of Scotland as a fiddler and dance teacher, and was a member of the Scottish Association of Teachers of Dancing, formed due to concerns that some purported teachers were not properly trained, or who provided false evidence of training and undercut bona-fide teachers.
