Scotland Puzzle

Scottish Fiddlers


By Kay Glasgow

Scottish Highland bagpipes are likely the instrument that first comes to mind for Scottish music. But over the centuries fiddles must have made even more music in Scotland. Fiddlers of Scotland are the stuff of folktale, superstition, proverb, poem, song and dance. Their instruments went further afield, crofters named a seed broadcasting machine "fiddle"! Since the early 1800's, whether a fiddler was in the household or not, tables have been set with silver or flatware of the ever popular pattern, Scottish fiddle. Go right to the answers if you don't want to fiddle away too much time.

1 musical father of Strathspey and Reel, __ __ (1727-1807) (4,3) WE LOGIN
2 site of Glenfiddich Fiddling Championhip (5,6) TRIBAL SCALE
3 fiddle tunes known by meters or dances: jig, skip jig, reel or __ SHYEST TRAP
4 debut was 1980, Aberdeen and still under John Mason's baton, the Scottish __ __ (6,9) THREADED FROLICS
5 Shetlander and founding member of Boys of the Lough (3,4) ALBA YIN
6 area of Nova Scotia, a home to Scottish fiddling (4,6) PERT BEACON
7 Scottish __ __ (aka FIRE) sets rules for many fiddling competitions (8,7) VIVA RIDDLING ELF
8 characteristic rhythm pattern of Scottish fiddling called __ __ (6,4) SCANT CHOPS
9 in "Highland capital" __, is Tomnahurich Hill where fairies kept fiddler for a night of hundreds of years NEVER SINS
10 teacher of fiddlers Aly Bain and Catriona MacDonald, __ __ (3,8) NO DRAM NOTES
11 born in Portobello, fiddler and composer, Johnny __ (1957-2003) MUCH INN GAN


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