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The Crieff Burgh Band /Crieff Silver Band

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The Crieff Burgh Band     ( written   in the early 1950s )     MacRosty Park c 1920s     Crieff Silver  Band- MacRosty Park  1949   Back Row: D Scott; A McCabe; D Copland; R Boag; W Suttie; Mid Row: K Blair; C Duncan; D Shepherd; J Oliphant; J Hutchison; C Wilson; F Turner; Front Row: A Duncan; B Gudmunsson, J Watters; R Dickson (Conductor); G Pluckrose; J Duncan; G Watters.         My old friend Alex McCabe is a Crieff   man through and through – a member of a well respected and known family who have    been around the Strath for more than a few generations   . Alex   kindly gave   me a typed article   which had come into his possession and believed   to have   been written in the   early 1950s . Its   title   was   simply “The Crieff Burgh Band “ and the author was unknown . As someone   who spends a dis...