Asked after their Usher Hall gig if he'd like a "wee something", he'd murmur, "Mmmm."
"What?" he'd be asked to explain. "Is it a large one rather?"
Beanie "mmmm"d more.
"Double?"
Nodded in a half-smile.
His instrument, the viola, occasionally the object of caricature – either being too big or too wee – often incurred in Beanie the desire to indulge somewhat in the bevvy.
In that, he was not alone in Scottish orchestral circles.
Mmmm, indeed.