How to play ROSLIN CASTLE ✨ Traditional Scottish & English air ✨ Fiddle tutorial

[@sallyjordan8007]

I just love ❤️ you girl. You are so fun to learn from and you are so good

[@fabfaco8271]

Merci pour cette leçon et bonne année. Thank you for this lesson and happy new year

[@joekagerer]

A monkey wrench is an adjustable wrench similar to a Crescent wrench, but the jaws are on the side. It looks like a fine pipe wrench. You teach me violin, I'll tell you about tools 🙂Thanks for the great lesson!🔧

[@btryba]

If a fiddle is for fiddling around with, I would say a monkey wrench is for monkeying around with :) Thanks for the lesson. Excellent as always.

[@didbordas4437]

All your videos are really great and well explained. I am learning violon and love Irish music. Thanks for all from France

[@lowellirish]

The melody is a British march used by the English army during the (American) Revolutionary War period, says Winscott (1970). Camus (1976) states the tune was the melody most often associated with funerals during the Revolution, and notes that legend has it that it was played by Scottish bagpipers stationed in New York at the time, in honor of the castle at Roslyn, Midlothian, Scotland. It was perhaps in a funereal state of mind that British troops in 1781 played the tune as they marched out the small Long Island, New York, village of Hempstead Harbor. The oppressed residents, however, rejoiced at the sound, and remembering this, in 1844 their descendants changed the name of their village to Roslyn. The Continental forces also employed the tune as a memorial air. For example, during the 1779 campaign against the Iroquois Six Nations two men had been dispatched by tomahawks and left to lay. After they were found a Colonel Proctor ordered his musicians, in passing the spot, to play “Roslin Castle,” whose “soft and moving tones” silenced the regiment and awakened pity for their comrades (Rev. William Roger’s Journal, p. 35). “Rossline Castle, a Dead March” was entered into the c. 1776-78 music copybook [1] of fifer Thomas Nixon (Framingham, Conn.). Nixon was a thirteen-year-old who accompanied his father to the battles of Lexington and Concord, and who served in the Continental army in engagements in and around New York until 1780, after which he returned home to build a house in Framingham. The copybook appears to have started by another musician, Joseph Long, and to have come into Nixon’s possession. The dirge was played as especially appropriate when Washington's Farewell Address was read to the troops encamped at Newburgh, New York, on their disbandment in 1783. There is a LOT more that I found out about the song, and the Castle... Check out WIKIPEDIA.

[@lizzy-folksongsscottis4518]

I love learning with you Everything is so clearly described Thanks so much!

[@stagelifelv9324]

This is the type of music I fell in love with as a teen. This kind of music transports me to another time. Beautiful playing Lady!

[@camillakjeldgaard6877]

❤I love it. So easy to learn the tunes from you

[@joanbabcock]

Gorgeous haunting melody. Thanks Liz!

[@mikebrewster9923]

Nice. Got my next tune to learn. Thanks!

[@starman2671]

GREAT TUNE, I like the variety of songs and styles I'm learning.

[@FlyCam2000]

Hi Liz, love this tune and your style of teaching is so nice with your humor as the cherry on top of a perfect lesson. Looked everywhere for a lesson of Rose in the Gap but can't find one, could you in the future maybe look at doing a lesson for this one...? Your biggest fan Mick from Dublin Ireland.

[@marybrunart]

Hi Liz, how wonderful is this tune? It's the best way to start the new year. I wish for you a New Year full of many beautiful things and many satisfactions!

[@maruxa.curuxa]

Lovely tune ☺️. I was wondering what happened to the Derry reel video, is it not available anymore or is it on the patreon page? I loved that tune 😳🌸

[@danatfowler]

How do I get the sheet music including all the double stops

[@fractuss]

I just happen to own an old monkey wrench.