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Tunebook Links Coming Soon (or message me if I haven't updated this yet) [email protected]
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Paddy Keenan: Coppers and Brasses, Johnny's Tune For The Avalon,
I had a pretty intense time listening to Paddy Keenan's playing and browsing the Gallery on his website:
All the Tunes on this week's show come from one of O'Farrell's 5 publications or Angus MacKay's 3rd and 4th manuscript, viewable at the National Library of Scotland:
For O'Farrell's Pocket Companion 1 and 2 you can view them online from the National Libary of Scotland's Website:
1806ish: O Farrells Pocket Companion for the Irish or Union Pipes Vol 2
Vol 3 and 4 are available on Ross's Music Page:
Unfortunately O Farrel's Tutor is not available online anywhere except as ABC notation, and presently I'm having a hard time finding that even.
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Tunes played in this episode:
Scottish Smallpipes Session: La Promeneuse, Hielan’ Laddie and Road to Isles, Sound of Sleat, Horsburgh castle, The Duck, Drops of Brandy
Northumbrian Smallpipes Session: Alston Flower Show hornpipe,
Irish Uilleann Pipes Session: Jim Ward's, Speed the Plough, Joe Banes / Gypsy Princess, Drops of Brandy, E minor Slip Jig (tune name?), The Butterfly, Man of the House
Cabaret: Dos A Beer, The Haunting, The Boy’s Lament for His Dragon
Irish Session Guitar solo (Bruce Childress): Mona Ray
SSP, whistle, and bowed dulcimer: Pretty Saro
Thanks to: All The Pipers’ Gathering session-goers; Cabaret performers Rebecca Connor, Benjamin Elzerman, and Nate and Asher Banton
Keep up with us online: https://www.pipersgathering.org/
https://www.facebook.com/pipersgathering/
Look for the Cairdeas Session Tune Book on these sites:
https://www.cairdeas.org/
And listen to the tune recordings here: https://cairdeas-vermont.bandcamp.com/album/the-c-irdeas-session-tunebook-companion-recordings
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Tunes:
Check Out the Tunes from the Goodman Manuscripts By Mick O'Brien, Emer Mayock, Aoife Ní Bhriain here:
Check out Mullach a' tSí by Aoife Nic Dhomhnaill & Liam Lonergan here:
Check Out John Charles Bauschatz's Website here:
Check out Barry Shears' Work here:
Check out the Cairdeas Tunebook Album here:
Check out the LBPS 2025 Collogue Recording here:
Check out Iain Gelston's Work here:
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Big thank you to the folks at Càirdeas and specifically to the instructors who let me use a recording of them playing:
Check out Càirdeas website here: https://www.cairdeas.org/
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Big Thanks to John Dally, Stephen McNally, Pete Stewart and Adam Sanderson for helping with my attempts at salvaging my miserable pornunciations.
For an article on the "Z" or yogh letter:
Most of the tunes this week come from William Mackie's 1828 Pastoral Pipes manuscript still available on Ross's Music Page:
https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/archive/rja14/musicfiles/manuscripts/mackie-part1.pdf
here is an archived photo of Mackie's pipes:
https://web.archive.org/web/20240329181248/http://nms.scran.ac.uk/database/record.php?usi=000-000-579-671-C&scache=2u56p5txg5&searchdb=scran
Other Sources:
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1823: Taste Life’s Glad Moments from Edinburgh Chapbook
https://digital.nls.uk/chapbooks-printed-in-scotland/archive/104184666
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1793: Robin Adair from Edinburgh Musical Miscellany https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/94581712
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1818: Robin Adair : The Much Admired Ballad, as sung by Mr. Philipps arranged for piano forte or harp by W. Reeve
[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015096437556](https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015096437556)
For a Chapter on the History of “Robin Adair and Eileen Aroon” see:
Stories of Famous Songs vol 1_ by S. J. Adair Fitz-Gerald, 1901
[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.31951002410743h](https://hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.31951002410743h)
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1810: Aleen Aroon from Smollet Hoden’s A Collection of Farorite Irish Airs arranged for the Harp or Pianoforte”
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Tunes:
Tunes:
Cuddy’s Wedding from Vickers, Auld Lang Syne from Appomattox, Hoopers and Girders (Pete Stewart’s Setting from David Young),
Over the Hills and Far Away, Mill Mill O, Oyster Wive’s Rant, Gravel Walks, Brenda Stubberts, Mason’s Apron, Miss McLeod of Raasay, Atholl Highlanders, and many more.
Càirdeas is pretty booked up for this year actually, but be sure to get on their mailing list here:
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All songs in this episode are poems by Robert Louis Stevenson set to traditional tunes:
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Thanks to J.F.M. Russell, who has made his research into the music of Robert Louis Stevenson available on his website, https://sites.google.com/a/music-of-robert-louis-stevenson.org/introduction/home
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Thanks to Jeremy Kingsbury for inviting me to guest host this episode, and for the many words of advice and encouragement in the process of recording and editing it.
Thanks to my son Ethan for his assistance and expert advice on mixing and mastering this episode.
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You can hear much more about the Over the Hills and Far Away tune in Wetootwaag’s Bagpipe and History Podcast, Season 7 Episode 10:
I didn’t mention it in the episode, but one of my favorite sung settings of this song is arranged by Sean Dagher on La Nef’s Sea Songs & Shanties album: (a great collection of sea shanty arrangements!)
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Bremner’s (unnamed) tune from a note with transcription by Fannie, Robert’s wife, in her preface to Underwoods, A Child's Garden of Verses & Underwoods, Ballads, which is from the Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Vailima Edition Volume VIII
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Original tune that Burns used for his Here Awa’ There Awa’, from a book RLS had in his library, The Songs of Scotland Without Words:
From (another book RLS had in his library) Gems of Scottish Song: (this is an adaptation of the tune that Burns used for his Bonnie Dundee)
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Please see Mr. Russell’s page about this song, which includes two examples of the song notated in Stevenson’s hand.
And this note with transcription by Fannie, Robert’s wife, in her preface to Underwoods,
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My bellows-blown scottish smallpipes were made by Nate Banton
My C chanter was made by Robert Felsburg
My low D whistle and C whistle were made by Rob Gandara
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