{"id":776,"date":"2014-05-26T13:07:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-26T13:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/?p=776"},"modified":"2014-09-25T19:26:29","modified_gmt":"2014-09-25T19:26:29","slug":"776","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/2014\/05\/26\/776\/","title":{"rendered":"To Ron from Jimmy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2014\/05\/Shand-Book.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-777\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2014\/05\/Shand-Book-255x300.jpg\" alt=\"Shand Book\" width=\"255\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2014\/05\/Shand-Book-255x300.jpg 255w, http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2014\/05\/Shand-Book.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 255px) 100vw, 255px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2014\/05\/Ron-Signature.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-778\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2014\/05\/Ron-Signature-250x300.jpg\" alt=\"Ron Signature\" width=\"250\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2014\/05\/Ron-Signature-250x300.jpg 250w, http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2014\/05\/Ron-Signature.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In our discussion on Ron Gonnella the other day, Jane MacMorran mused over whether Ron had been a musical friend of the accordionist Jimmy Shand. Jane had heard that as a child Ron would climb on stage at local dances where Shand was performing and play along on his fiddle. I promised to look at David Phillip&#8217;s biography of Jimmy to see if there is any reference to this. Imagine my surprise and delight when I opened by copy of the book purchased in an Edinburgh second-hand shop some years ago. I had forgotten that I had bought Ron&#8217;s personal copy, signed and dated (August 1976), which had been presented to him by Jimmy Shand! It carries the dedication: <em>To Ron, Happy to Meet, Sorry to Part, Happy to Meet Again, Jimmy Shand.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 In our discussion on Ron Gonnella the other day, Jane MacMorran mused over whether Ron had been a musical friend of the accordionist Jimmy Shand. Jane had heard that as a child Ron would climb on stage at local &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/2014\/05\/26\/776\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=776"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":903,"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions\/903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}