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| Tape | NPS-JFC-5-023-SIDE-B | Batch | 2 | Length m | 47 | Date Rec’d | 1977 or later | |
| Title | Piping Society Concert 11 11 83 | Contents | Recording of live concert but no indication of date. BBC Radio at end | |||||
| Quality | ||||||||
| Notes | stereo. Same as side A? | |||||||
| Help | Identification of tunes. Confirmation of date. Copyright arrangements for concert. | |||||||
| Start-End | Performer | Tunes/Titles | Instruments | Notes | by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0:00-5:29 | Alastair Anderson and at least one other. (Colin Ross?) | Air for Maurice Ogg in progress at start – continued from Side A Jumping Jack unid | Northumbrian Smallpipes (NSP) | Continuation of the event on Side A as Air for Maurice Ogg is in progress as tape starts. Alistair Anderson talks about composing Jumping Jack, confirming his identity. | MD |
| 5:30-7:05 | Old Drove Road | NSP Duet | MD | ||
| 7:10-13:37 | Described as “four bar reels, 3/2 hornpipe, something with alternate bars 3/4 and 6/8 and a 9/8 jig” | Concertina | MD | ||
| 13:37-17:00 | Bonny at Morn unidentified | NSP with later fiddle accompaniment | MD | ||
| 17:12-23:25 | The Mill Stream (announced) unidentified | Concertina | MD | ||
| 23:25-25:30 | Colin Ross (voice identification) and others. Possibly High Level Ranters | Rookland Lasses unidentified | Fiddles | MD | |
| 25:45-31:50 | Border Spirit King’s Hall (announced) | NSP with later fiddle accompaniment | MD | ||
| 31:50-38:56 | Bonny Woodside unid Whinham’s Reel Morpeth Rant Nancy | Fiddles | Concert recording ends with applause. | MD | |
| 38:56-47:33 | 38:56 to end is the tail end of a BBC Radio 4 “Music to Remember” with the BBC Concert Orchestra from the Corn Exchange Bedford, followed by news bulletin – Muldergate Affair, Tanzania rebels invading Uganda. Begin/Sadat talks – which dates this bit to October 1977 but obviously that only means the concert couldn’t have been earlier than 1977 as it’s recorded over the top of the earlier tape | MD | |||
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