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Description: Biographies of fiddlers of North East Scotland, with audio samples of modern players playing their tunes. [from J. Murdoch Henderson’s “Flowers of Scottish Melody”, 1935]
NEFA - The North East Folklore Archive From The Flowers of Scottish Melody, Biographies and Criticisms, 1935. Niel Gow was born at Inver, near Dunkeld, Perthshire, on the 22nd March, 1727. Violin playing was almost his sole occupation. Although he was not a player of high culture he displayed in his performances that almost unrestrained abandon which, then as to-day, swayed audiences as much as the music itself. In addition there were undoubtedly certain elements in his playing by which he could give strathspeys and reels an interpretation beyond the powers of any of his contemporaries. Foremost amongst these was his powerful up-bow stroke, vaguely and not always too aptly described as a receding stroke. J. Scott Skinner has suggested that it was acquired through the frequent use of the up-driven bow, certainly a most effective stroke all too little used now, but the latter can scarcely be called a receding stroke and Niel Gow's ablest contemporaries could and would have employed it.
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