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Current Catalogue Entry
| Tape | NPS-JFC-C-034-1&3 | Batch | 2 | Length m | 44 | Date Rec’d | ||
| Title | PS Piping Society Concert 1966 McPeake Family | Contents | Live recording of (probably) an NPS concert No sign of McPeake family | |||||
| Quality | Variable quality recording – volume is inconsistent and there’s a crackle across quite a lot of it. Recording obviously stopped and started again several times MD. A candidate for intelligent noise removal if available (not on original of course). GM | |||||||
| Notes | Stereo. Comparing it to 034-24, there are differences in the volume of some of the acts. ?Possible that it was actually recorded as stereo (or more) across all the tracks so the two need combining?? Probably an NPS concert because MC introduces Tommy Breckons as “who this year is the Society’s Open Champion”, but no sign of the McPeake family on here. No other indication of date. Given the eclectic nature of the performances, possibility that it’s some other event. | |||||||
| Help | Year of recording – when was Tommy Breckons NPS Open Champion in the 60s? Identification/confirmation of tunes Identification/confirmation of performers Confirmation of event | |||||||
| Start-End | Performer | Tunes/Titles | Instruments | Notes | by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0-10:54 | Unidentified band | Girl With The Blue Dress On Soldier’s Joy unid Helston Furry song Irish Washerwoman | Fiddle piano accordion drum singing | First performers are a band – Border Hills or similar | MD |
| 11:00-19:30 | Unid Scottish female singer – announced but inaudibly | The Jute Mill Song Maids When You’re Young Never Wed an Old Man The Day We went to Rothesay ( all announced) | Female voice with guitar accompaniment | MD | |
| 20:15-25:41 | George Atkinson – announced (probable – not very distinct) | Marquis of Lorne (not NPS1 version) Barrington Hornpipe Remember Me Rothbury Hills Pet o’ the Pipers Biddly the Bowl Wife Hexham Races Irish Washerwoman | Northumbrian smallpipes | MD | |
| 26:30-31:00 | Monkseaton Handbell Ringers – announced | Men of Harlech Farmers Boy Lincolnshire Poacher Lass of Richmond Hill (all announced) | Handbells | MD | |
| 32:30-35:27 | John Doonan Quintet – announced | Unid/unid/unid | Flute or piccolo piano accordion spoons fiddle [not sure what the 5th one is] | MD | |
| 35:45-41:16 | Tommy Breckons – announced | Unid Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms Last of the Twins Cameron Highlanders Duke of Fife unid unid | Northumbrian Smallpipes | MD | |
| 41:16-end | Blank | MD | |||
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