She is the Tayside woman who took up the violin “just for fun” and swept all before her.
Margaret Jamieson (nee Wilson) became an accomplished violinist after giving up piano lessons.
She won various medals, cups and trophies across Scotland for her violin playing but there is one which has always held a special place in her heart.
Mrs Jamieson, 85, who was born and brought up in Dundee, won the Waddell Trophy, a bronze statue of Mozart, for the violin solo class at the Glasgow Music Festival in 1951.
The trophy was transported on a train from Glasgow before being put on a haulage truck and taken all the way to Mrs Jamieson’s front door in Fintry Drive.
She kept the trophy for a year but has always spoken about it and has now started a search to find out what became of it after it was sold.
“It was quite a thing at the time to win the trophy,” said Mrs Jamieson
“The competition took place at St Andrew’s Hall at Charing Cross which burned down in 1962.
“It was the most beautiful trophy and it arrived at Dundee West Station and it was collected there by a haulage contractor.
“The trophy arrived at my front door in a big wooden box and it sat on my mum’s sideboard for a year before going back.
“I think at the time I didn’t appreciate it and it’s only now that I realise how big an achievement it actually was.
“I would love to know what happened to the trophy and be reunited with it again.”
Mrs Jamieson, who now lives in Trinity, Brechin, with husband Archie, worked in a jute office as a typist and later taught the violin and viola in Angus schools.
Her daughter Elizabeth Baillie said: “Mum would very much like to know where is this beautiful trophy. It is a bronze of Mozart.
“Dad also won the Blue Riband Trophy and mum and dad have since been reunited with it.
“We now want to know if anyone knows where the Waddell Trophy is as it would just be wonderful to see this trophy again.
“We often talk of it and wonder where it is. Her name is on it and I would just love to find it for her. She would be so thrilled to see it again.”
Beryl Fisher, chairman of the Glasgow Music Festival, said: “We have been researching our archives.
“Glasgow Music Festival had a Waddell Trophy which was sold as part of a batch to a Mr Alan Marshall, probably around the 1960s.
“We cannot unearth anything else relevant.”
Mrs Jamieson was awarded Arbroath Music Festival’s Blue Riband twice on violin in 1951 and 1954, with her future husband, Archie Jamieson, from Kirriemuir, winning it in 1956 for his vocal performance.
She also won a string of awards in the Edinburgh and Perth competitive festivals but the Waddell Trophy captured her imagination.
