Lovely words! A fiddler, or a player of the jug?
Douglas Dunn says it means a fiddler.
Robert Tannahill
Another version
"Wi' your clarion, flute, and fiddle,
Wll gar their southron heart-strings diddle".
The Tannahill Weavers The Braes of Balquhidder
The Bonnie Woods of Craigielea
The Poems and Songs of Robert Tannahill (online)
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"Burns, Tannahill and Fergusson,
Those jorum-jirgers...."
From "Tannahill" by Douglas Dunn (St Kilda's Parliament).
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