Friday 13 November (Well, it would be Friday the Thirteenth!)

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On This Day

On 13 November 1854, crusty old Aberdonian James Davie wrote sadly to his friend Andrew Wighton in Dundee,

I now despair of findng anything very interesting now in our line.

It’s strange now to read of an antiquarian despairing of finding interesting old publications, when we today can get excited about old music whose compilers weren’t even yet born in 1854!

And on 13 November 1893, Glaswegian music publisher James S. Kerr died in his Saltcoats home. He was only 52.

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