Tour Scotland Video Traditional Scottish Accordion Music Auchtermuchty Festival Fife

Tour Scotland video of Traditional Scottish accordion music on visit to the Traditional Music Festival in Auchtermuchty, Fife, Scotland. The accordion originated in Italy in the early 19th century and became popular all over Europe. It quickly found its place in Scottish music, its greater power lending itself to playing alongside the fiddle in dance bands, and its complexity allowing it to play a wide variety of tunes and styles. There are basically two types of accordion: the piano accordion, which has a piano keyboard on one side of the bellows to play the melody and a series of pistons or buttons on the other to play the bass lines and chords; and the button accordion which uses a series of buttons on the right-hand side instead of the piano keyboard. Like the fiddle, it is very popular in dance music and the two instruments are often paired off, there are many accordion and fiddle clubs in existence throughout Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video Traditional Scottish Folk Music Bridge Of Earn Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of traditional Scottish Folk music on ancestry visit to Bridge of Earn by Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Bridge of Earn, Scottish Gaelic: Drochaid Èireann, is a small town located South of Perth. Often referred to simply as The Brig, which is Scots for bridge, by its inhabitants. The village grew up on the south bank of an important crossing of the River Earn, whose sandstone bridge existed from at least the early 14th century, when it is known to have been repaired by order of King Robert I of Scotland, born 1306, died 1329.

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Tour Scotland Video Traditional Scottish Songs Auchtermuchty Festival Fife

Tour Scotland video of Traditional Scottish Songs on visit to the Traditional Music Festival in Auchtermuchty, Fife, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Autumn Morning Walk Murrayshall Golf Course Scone Perthshire

Tour Scotland Autumn video a morning walk on Murrayshall golf course by Scone near Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Autumn Video Drive Narrow Road To Forneth Perthshire

Tour Scotland Autumn video of a drive on the narrow road to Forneth, a tiny village in Clunie parish, six miles West of Blairgowrie, Perthshire, Scotland. Near the village are the foundations of what is believed to have been a castle used by Kenneth MacAlpin, the first king of Scotland, as a base for hunting in the nearby royal forest of Clunie. John James Rickard Macleod, born 6 September 1876, died 16 March 1935, was born in Clunie, he was a Scottish biochemist and physiologist. He devoted his career to diverse topics in physiology and biochemistry, but was chiefly interested in carbohydrate metabolism. He is noted for his role in the discovery and isolation of insulin during his tenure as a lecturer at the University of Toronto, for which he and Frederick Banting received the 1923 Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine. Awarding the prize to Macleod was controversial at the time, because according to Banting's version of events, Macleod's role in the discovery was negligible. It was not until decades after the events that an independent review acknowledged a far greater role than was attributed to him at first.

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