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01-Jun-2018
by Rob Howard
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 Leading Shand Morino accordionist Fraser McGlynn, from Tarbert, Argyll, passed away on May 29th at the age of 78. He started his musical life on his dad’s old 2-row melodeon, and was largely self-taught. At 15 his brother bought him a new 3-row button accordion with 48 bass and a local player, Donald MacKay, explained some of the intricacies e.g. that it was possible to use a combination of the three rows and thus form scales. On leaving school he became a painter and decorator, then later a postman, but both jobs restricted his playing so the solution, in 1972, was to go self-employed at his trade. He had formed his own band at eighteen with himself on lead accordion, Duncan MacLean - second accordion, Davie Scott on fiddle, Jim Flaherty on piano, Norman Smith bass, and Jackie MacLeod drums. Having failed a BBC radio audition in 1959, it was 1968 before they passed a second, with their first ‘Take the Floor’ broadcast going out that year. Along the way Fraser had become one of Scotland’s leading exponents of the 3-row British Chromatic accordion, winning the All Scotland Championship at Perth in 1962 and 1966. From the early 1980s, he worked mainly with a trio and guested at most of Scotland’s Accordion & Fiddle Clubs. Fraser McGlynn made several albums of Scottish music, and also occasionally served as a competition adjudicator. He was well liked and greatly respected by his peers. His funeral will be held on Thursday June 7th at 12noon at Tarbert Loch Fyne Parish Church. |