Jimmy Shand's melodeons....

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Jimmy Shand's melodeons....

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.... are being sold in Glasgow this Friday, along with a collection of memorabilia from his long and distinguished career in Scottish dance music.
See if this link works - the auctioneers are "McTear's".

http://www.mctears.co.uk/auctions/brows ... 6e2453be30

The "Jimmy" items are towards the end of the sale.
I thought anyone with an interest in a) - melodeons, b) Scottish dance band music history - might like to know about it.
The estimates seem very low to me, considering Jimmy's place in Scottish music.
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Thanks for this. I know of certain potentially interested parties, so it's good to be able to forward the news.
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Re: Jimmy Shand's melodeons....

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I wonder if Richard Thompson has heard?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FH7Kj_V6-c
And now there was no doubt that the trees were really moving - moving in and out through one another as if in a complicated country dance. ('And I suppose,' thought Lucy, 'when trees dance, it must be a very, very country dance indeed.')

C.S. Lewis
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