There are some great Jimmy Shand stories. "I see you keep a bee" is obviously the best known, but I heard rather a good one recently, forgive me for any liberties taken with the facts...

Apparently, there was a fiddle/violin convention being held in Edinburgh in the early nineties, attended by luminaries from all over the world. Yehudi Menuhin was there , and while trying out one of the fiddles on offer played a couple of Paganini caprices.

In the middle of Menuhin's impromptu performance, Scottish dance band leader Ian Powrie walked in and listened to the tail end. After he had finished, to rapturous applause, Powrie turned round to his companions and declaimed, " Y'know, that man's good enough to play with Shand"

Murray