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Lament for the Death of the Rev. Archie Beaton

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Lament for the Death of the Rev. Archie Beaton

The Fiddle Orchestras and Strathspey and Reel Societies of Scotland offer yet another facet of fiddle music. As a founder, musical director and principal conductor of the Scottish Fiddle Orchestra, the late John M Mason has been a hugely inspirational and influential figure. He wrote this lament for a much respected champion of Gaelic culture who died in 1971. It is now so firmly established in the Scottish and Northumbrian traditions that many assume it to be a traditional tune from the eighteenth or nineteenth century rather than a recent composition.

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