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| Tape | NPS-JFC-5-002-SIDE-B | Batch | 1 | Length m | 47 | Date Rec’d | |
| Title | George Hepple Interview | Contents | Interview (stereo) + off Radio | ||||
| Quality | |||||||
| Notes | Music is present as part of the interview. | ||||||
| Help | ID some tunes. Could denoise the conversation if necessary | ||||||
| Start-End | Performer | Tunes/Titles | Instruments | Notes | by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 00-47:02 end | George Hepple and Forster Charlton | Flow Gently Sweet Afton Rowantree Hill | Fiddles | This is the continuation of the interview on Side A where the interview is talking about playing seconds, with GH and FC mostly playing duets, FC apparently wanting to record GH’s seconds with a view to including some of them in the proposed NPS Duet Book. Comments about the NPS Second Tune Book as a fairly recent thing mean the recording is no earlier than 1981 but before 1986. There’s enough talking round the tunes that it would be worth someone transcribing the speech.George and Forster playing duets on the fiddle, following on from the end of side one | MD |
| 00: 01:45 | Flow Gently Sweet Afton – duet | FC comment – Can’t see how that’s going to fit on the pipes but we’ll compromise when I write it out | MD | ||
| 02:22 -09:04 | Tune followed by the seconds – GH, then attempted duet | Rowantree Hill – | MD | ||
| 10:00 -12:30 | GH lead, FC seconds, then the reverse | Herd on the Hill | MD | ||
| 12:50 – 13:45 | FC | Stumpy | GH suggests Buttered Peas, FC plays him Stumpy instead | MD | |
| 14:10 – 15:20 | Duet | Bobby Shaftoe | recording clearly paused while FC talks about something else | MD | |
| 7:40 -18:20 | Voice/Chat | MD | |||
| 18:20 -24:40 | FC | Gateshead Stadium | FC talking about some of mistakes in NPS 2 “four of my tunes there and three of them have mistakes in them”. Also says “I’ll try and work on the Duet Book” | MD | |
| 24:40 -25:45 | Duet | JB Milne | |||
| 25:40 – 27:22 | Duet George Hepple and Forster Charlton | Caddam Woods | While Caddam Woods is usually considered to be a Scottish country dance tune and attributed to Adam Rennie (1897-1960) & John Y Cameron, the tune appears as the melody of a German drinking song in the soundtrack of the film All Quiet on the Western Front (1930). | CO | |
| 28:30 -35:55 | Hornpipe Duets | Marquis of Lorne Greencastle Hornpipe Londonderry/Derry Hornpipe Trumpet Friendly Visit Londonderry Unid Harvest Home Belfast | MD CO | ||
| 36:00- 39:25 | FC | voice/chat | FC talking about what he might do with the interview and asking for photo of GH | MD | |
| 39:25-end | Current affairs radio programme (probably Radio 4) talking about nuclear arms reduction negotiations | MD |
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