"Sterling Castle" and "Harvest Home" William Craig fiddle, Scotland (1909) Irish reel Scottish reel

Описание: "Sterling Castle" and "Harvest Home" are played by William Craig on Edison Gold Moulded Record 10120 (1909).

The fiddler William Craig recorded for Edison around 1908 to 1911. Craig was among the first players of Scottish music featured on commercial records. James Scott Skinner was the first.

The Edison Phonograph Monthly of June 1908 states this: "A new Edison artist, William Craig, the violinist, of Glenburnie, Scotland, is presented with this Record. Mr. Craig was especially engaged to give us a series of the celebrated Scotch dances, Strathspey and Reel [Lady Binnie / Shores of Lake Erie]. His first selection offers an opportunity for some dexterous bowing and shows him to be a violinist of very unusual ability. Piano accompaniment."

The August 1911 edition states, "William Craig dead. A dispatch from Glenburnie, Scotland, announces the death at that place on July 10th of William Craig, the violinist, who made Edison Standard Records 9893, 10120, 10357 and 10440."

Death records in Scotland have no William Craig passing on July 10, 1911. Glenburnie is a name used for several places in Scotland, most notably in Lanarkshire and at Newburgh, Fife.

It seems likely that the Edison trade journal made a mistake in citing Scotland. Canada is more likely.

A man named William Craig died on July 10, 1911, at Kingston, Frontenac County, Ontario, Canada. His age was 73.

This Craig is buried at Cataraqui Cemetery in that Canadian city. His wife was Eleanor Isabelle Waggoner Craig, born in 1845 at Kingston and buried in the same cemetery after her death in 1925 at age 80. They were married in 1863.

Glenburnie is a rural community outside the city of Kingston, Ontario.