Watch: ‘Fetlar Lullaby’ piano restored
THE HISTORIC piano on which the Fetlar Lullaby was written has been restored.
The Fetlar Interpretive Centre held a celebration last Saturday with Steve Strachan and fiddler Maurice Henderson playing the Fetlar Lullaby in what is now a dedicated music room in the museum.
It was Fetlar resident Strachan who restored the instrument, the Brough Lodge piano.
The music room at the centre also includes digital recordings of Fetlar voices and music from the 1970s.
A fiddle from John Robertson, whose played features in the 1970s archives, has also been donated by his great-granddaughter Debbie Irvine.
Meanwhile a public meeting is set to be held in Fetlar on Thursday regarding plans to restore the historic Brough Lodge.
The derelict mansion was bought by the European Heritage Project from the Brough Lodge Trust in August 2023 for £30,000.
European Heritage Project is a Germany based organisation set up to preserve historically unique monuments and buildings.
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