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Bachelors' Club, Upper Room.At one time the largest room in the village, it was here that Burns came in 1777 to take dancing lessons and in 1780 formed a debating society for unmarried men known as the Bachelors' Club. On the 4th July 1781, Robert Burns also became a freemason in this room. Fiddle
Entertainment in the late 18th Century was simple and dancing was a popular pastime. Burns took dancing lessons ‘to give my manners a brush’ in this room from 1777, much against his father’s wishes. Music for the dances held here would be played by a fiddler. The so-called ‘Greig Fiddle’ played by Burns is owned by the National Trust for Scotland and is kept at Culzean Castle, Ayrshire. |
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