The Banff and Buchan Collection

Jane Turriff, Mintlaw, 15/08/1994

Robert Lovie, New Aberdour, 13/09/1994

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NEFA 1994.051.01   
P: Jane Turriff
T:
Teaching TM to march
S:
Accordion. TV on very quietly in the background. JT plays marches. Keep time to the music. She diddles as well.

NEFA 1994.051.02   
P: Jane Turriff
T:
Another march
S:
Accordion.

NEFA 1994.051.03   
P: Jane Turriff
T:
McPherson's Rant
S:
March on accordion with vocalising.

NEFA 1994.051.04    
P: Jane Turriff
T:
Waltz
S:
Accordion. JT sings along with this one too.

NEFA 1994.051.05    
P: Jane Turriff
T:
March
S:
Accordion (first phrase is like Wha Saw the Tattie Howkers).

NEFA 1994.051.06    Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T: McFarlane o the Sprotts o Birnie Bouzie
S:
March on accordion. You have to get the rhythm of it.

NEFA 1994.051.07    Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T:
Farewell Tae Whisky
S:
March on accordion.

NEFA 1994.051.08    Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T:
Maggie
S:
March on accordion (Maggie played as a march). Used to have Clive Powell going with this.

NEFA 1994.051.09    
P: Jane Turriff
T:
Wild Mountain Thyme
S:
Sung with accordion. [Part.]

NEFA 1994.051.10    Transcription
P:
Jane Turriff
T:
McPherson's Rant
FL:
...tae see me dee
S:
Sung with accordion. Long fragment. The last verse she sings she uses a melodic variant and then goes back to the original chorus melody. Recites verse about Peter Broun. McPherson was accused of stealing sheep, but PB did it. She has heard about the clock that they set forward. She does not remember about the Fetterangus (Fishie) clock being the one that was in Banff. TM sings verse about clock.

NEFA 1994.051.11    Transcription
P:
Jane Turriff
T:
Music and song at home
S:
Her mother and father use to sing and her father would play the fiddle she has on the wall. He used to shave wood off fiddles to make them sound better. He had three fiddles. He was a good fiddler and could play quick and slow tunes. Father played the organ, piano, fiddle, dulcimer (hammered), pipes, spoons. Her mother played the pipes and the chanter. Her brothers played too. Her father liked the dulcimer.

NEFA 1994.051.12    Transcription
P:
Robert Lovie
T:
Family background
S:
Born in Aberdeen, now near Fraserburgh. Describes farm. B. 1969. The family are fisherfolk as well as farming.

NEFA 1994.051.13    Transcription
P:
Robert Lovie
T:
Hearing songs early on
S:
Heard songs from age five. Remembers the Championship bothy competition in Turriff and entered a competition himself the next year. He won and still has the cup. Myra Thow presented the cup and they struck up a performance partnership. Broadcast at 9 or 10 years old. Met Arthur Argo and Robbie Shepherd. Kept competing for many years. Keith was the highlight. Plays pipes and piano. Plays with several groups, e.g. Garioch Blend. Been to Canada too. Still sings some of his earliest songs.

NEFA 1994.051.14    Transcription
P:
Robert Lovie
T:
Information on The Dying Ploughboy
S:
Story took place at Bonnyton Hill nearby New Aberdour. Tells background story of the song. Used to visit Drumdelgie when he worked for Grampian chickens.

NEFA 1994.051.15    Transcription
P:
Robert Lovie
T:
The Dying Ploughboy
FL:
The gloamin winds are sighin saft
S:
[Cut off partway through.]

 

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