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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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