The Left Handed Fiddler reel

By James Scott Skinner

Also known as The Left-Handed Fiddler.

There are 16 recordings of this tune.
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The Left Handed Fiddler has been added to 7 tune sets.

The Left Handed Fiddler has been added to 102 tunebooks.

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Scott Skinner wrote this for his father who had lost a finger in an accident,and re-learned the fiddle left handed.Not an easy task.

The Left Handed Fiddler

According to J Murdoch Henderson, this tune was named after George Taylor of Aberdeen. George Taylor had a son, also George, also a left-handed fiddler, and also celebrated in a tune on this site: https://thesession.org/tunes/3578

The Left Handed Fiddler, X:3

The first bar of the last line needs a note changing. Yes, yes, I know - but that ‘hiccup’ sounds good when you’re playing this as fast as it should be.