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| Tape | NPS-JFC-C-006-02 | Length m | 1h 28 | Date rec’d | Quality | ||
| Title | John Doonan, Dave Swarbrick, Archie Bartram at Billy’s + lesson 8 | Contents | Live recording of practice | ||||
| Notes | Live recording of evening practice/session with chat in between. No reason to doubt names on title. Poss brief voice of Mary Pigg. Fairly definitely John Doonan (flute and Irish accent), Billy Pigg, who turns up after they’ve started playing (names tune he’s just played), JFC (voice ident). Apart from flute and pipes, unclear who’s playing what instrument. Reference to John Armstrong playing the seconds for Sir Sidney Smith (MD) | ||||||
| Help | Someone to identify individual speakers and transcribe chat to try and identify who’s playing what. Identification of tunes | ||||||
| Start-End | Performer | Tunes/Titles | Instruments | Notes | by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 00-1.03:50 | John Doonan, Billy Pigg, Forster Charlton, ?Dave Swarbrick, ?Archie Bartram | Cooley’s Reel The Silver Spear (CO) The Hawk Sir Sidney Smith’s March King of the Pipers (all named) Father Kelly’s Jig (CO) Dingle Regatta – ensemble; Mason’s Apron – ensemble unid solo fiddle tune; several unid ensemble inc King of the Pipers | ensemble smallpipes ensemble ensemble ensemble solo fiddle ensemble | First two tunes ensemble; The Hawk, Sir Sidney Smith’s March, King of the Pipers (all named) – smallpipes; unid/Dingle Regatta – ensemble; Mason’s Apron – ensemble but with several fiddle “variations” along the way; unid solo fiddle tune; several unid ensemble Following the piccolo (Doonan) and fiddle (Swarbrick) Mason’s Apron duet, Swarbrick can be heard ‘noodling’ some more Mason’s Apron variations. Billy Pigg then attempts to do the same, but the strains he attempts to play are actually from other tunes – the third part of an Irish reel called The Moving Cloud, then one of Tom Clough’s variations on the East Neuk of Fife! (note by CO) | CO MD MD MD MD AS |
| Note: 16:10 | Billy Pigg | Sidney Smith’s march, | The original (as written) Sir Sidney Smith’s march, before it was altered with additional bars. | AS | |
| 1.03:50 1:26:55 | Songs from Sound of Music | Poss dub of record? | MD | ||
| 1:26:55 to end | Blank tape | MD | |||
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