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NEFA
1994.050.01 Transcription
P: Gordon Easton
T: The farm
S: Describes bits of land he has. Sold houses on part to a second
cousin. Kept the land.
NEFA
1994.050.02 Transcription
P: Gordon Easton
T: The Philorth Estate
S: Land was part of Philorth estate, Frasers of Fraserburgh.
1925 most of the estate was sold, almost everything. Fraser of Philorth
were the owners for long enough. The mansion house got burnt and
they moved to Cairnbulg Castle. The Broch town council used part
of the estate for offices. The rent for Wellhead was 36 pound at
one time, but the land court got it down. GE's grandfather paid
about 300 pounds for it.
NEFA
1994.050.03 Transcription
P: Gordon Easton
T: Places mentioned in 'The Friendly Ploughin Match at Tyrie'
S: Outside: Points out and describes the farms surrounding Wellhead
that appear in the local song The Ploughing Match. [High wind on
mike.]
NEFA
1994.050.04 Transcription
P: Gordon Easton
T: Fetterangus Strathspey and Reel Society
S: Names of people in the Fetterangus Strathspey and Reel Society
photograph. He has them written down somewhere [He was thinking
of another photo actually. See Broken Fiddle 3 for correct line-up
of names.] Jean Stewart is there. She had the accordion class as
well and Gordon has a picture of that too. Thinks the picture is
about 1946 [probably more like 1950]. They weren't married at the
time of his first competition in Mintlaw.
NEFA
1994.050.05 Transcription
P: Gordon Easton
T: Good players in the Fetterangus Strathspey and Reel Society
S: Andrew Burnett was the best player, though he was very shy.
Ned Stewart was a good player too, but with a very individual style,
like Dickie. There were just two competitions held at Mintlaw. Fetterangus
was very successful. Set up after Aberdeen, but before Banchory[?].
Most enjoyable, especially when they had guests once a fortnight.
[Tape off.]
NEFA
1994.050.06 Transcription
P: Joe Aitken
T: Judging at the Auchtermuchty Traditional Song competition
S: [Goes through each singer individually.] Dave McFadzean,
????, Allan Laing, Brian Miller, Tom McKean, Gordon Easton, Peter
McNeill, Scott Gardiner, Martin Jeffcoat[?], Arthur Ramage, Jock
Duncan, ????, William Brattan, Stanley Robertson, Peter McNab, ????,
Jim Duke. Third place tie: Brian Miller and Allan Laing. Nineteen
points separating first from last. Second: Stanley Robertson [end
of side A. Beginning of side B:] Local winner: Robert Elder. Overall
winner, first place: Jock Duncan. Another day, another judge, different
winners.
NEFA
1994.050.07 Transcription
P: Tom McKean and Jane Turriff
T: A singing lesson (1)
S: TM singing The Dowie Dens o Yarrow to Jane Turriff for her
comments and corrections. Good singer. Calls the decorations the
twisted notes or curly bits, the feelin. TM tells her about Stanley
Robertson and Jock Duncan winning. She says TM has a good voice
and only went wrong in two wee wordies. Clive Powell is a good singer
too.
NEFA
1994.050.08 Transcription
P: Tom McKean and Jane Turriff
T: A singing lesson (2)
S: TM sings My Wee Doggie to Jane Turriff for her comments and
corrections. A bonnie song. Her grannie used to sing it.
NEFA
1994.050.09 Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T: Mother's singing
S: She sometimes thinks of her mum and her singing. She always
calls her mother Ma not Mum. Her father was strict. He would look
after you when you were nae weel, but he was very firm. He'd make
a toddy if they were not well and send them to bed. He didn't let
them get off with anything, not like today. A father should be strict,
the boss ofthe house and look after the family. the father is the
head of the house. She misses her mum and dad even at this age.
She heard all these songs from them and learned them just by hearing
them. Billie still comes by a lot and looks after her. She misses
her parents a lto. Sicnce she was disabled, she was always near
them. Many's a time her parents would go away for a fortnight and
leave her. She's the oldest one.
NEFA
1994.050.10 Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T: Singing and playing in Fetterangus
S: Sometimes the whole family would be in her house in Fetterangus
and they would be singing and playing. She has two sisters in Aberdeen.
Her youngest sister died a while ago. She was a good whistler. Jane
sayed over the road from her parents in Fetterangus. She would go
and visit them and start playing. The whole family would start singing.
NEFA
1994.050.11 Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T: Reel to reel tape recorder
S: She has a tape (7" reel) of her family singing which she
has never heard. There was a lad in Fetterangus who used to come
round and he made this recording of Jane and husband Cameron. The
reel is too large for her tape player. [End of Tape.]
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