Annotation:Sir Torquil Monroe
X:1 T:Sir Torquil Monroe C:Adam Rennie (?) S:78rpm record M:6/8 L:1/8 Z:Nigel Gatherer K:A (orig. in Bb) E|EAA A2B|cAA A2G|FBB BcA|GEE E2E|EAA A2B|cAA A2G| FcB GFG|A3 A2:|d|cde ecA|dff f2A|GAB BGE|cee e2d| cde ecA|dff f2A|GAB EFG|A3 A2d|cde ecA|dff f2A| GAB BGE|cee e2e|efg agf|edc BAG|FGA BGE|A3 A2|]
SIR TORQUIL MONROE. AKA - "Sir Torquil Monro," "Sir Torquil Munro." Scottish, Jig (6/8 time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The composition is credited to fiddler and bandleader Adam Rennie [1] (1897-1960). A newspaper item records:
1930, January 31: Co-operative Women’s Guild Burns Night at Templars Hall on January 29 - Mr Cameron and Mrs M’Ginn supplied the music for the dance ... Kirriemuir Music Festival report: the event, in its third year, had been organised by the Kirriemuir Football Club in the Town Hall the previous Friday. Sir Torquil Munro presided over violin, piano, vocal and dancing competitions. Class A: Violin (open), Strathspey and Reel: 1st, James Cameron, Kirriemuir (‘who now retains the cup having won it three years running’); 2nd, George Cameron, Glamis. Class C: Violin solo. Strathspey or Pastoral Air: 1st. J. Johnston, Blairgowrie; 2nd, James Cameron, Kirriemuir.
Mentioned frequently in the item are the Cameron brothers (fiddlers William, James & George, and Stewart, who played the piano) who held one of the most respectable names in Scottish fiddling of the 1920s & ‘30s. They played and recorded as The Cameron Men, Cameron’s Band, Cameron’s Kirriemuir Band, Cameron’s Orchestra, Cameron’s Dance Band, Cameron’s Full Dance Band and Mr James Cameron’s Band, as well as in the ranks of the Angus Occasionals.