Tweeted today! “At one point in the early 20th century, the #LegalDepositMusic @StAndrewsUniLib was in a doocot (dovecot) – would it be the one at 46 South Street, I wonder?”
— StationersHall Music (@ClaimedStatHall) April 18, 2018
I’ve been writing up notes from our March workshop. Surveying the list of unlikely places for music to be kept, I think St Andrews gets the prize for the unlikeliest – not in an attic or tower, nor in piles on the floor, but in a dovecot, of all places! And I think this is it … at the School of Divinity, St Mary’s College, in the University of St Andrews. Please correct me if I’m wrong!
Karen McAulay, Musicologist 