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| Tape | NPS-JFC-E-018-01 | Length m | Date rec’d | Quality | |||
| Title | Billy Pigg original tape No.1. | Contents | |||||
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| Start-End | Performer | Tunes/Titles | Instruments | Notes | by |
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| 0-21.20 | Billy Pigg | ‘A set of reels, and a set of hornpipes in G’ – The Kilclaven Bridge set The High Level Bridge, New High Level Bridge Biddlestone Hornpipe Variation on Biddlestone Hornpipe? In semiquavers. Carrick Hornpipe I’ll Get Wedded in My Aad Claes (The Hexham Quadrille) ‘The Londonderry Hornpipe and [indistinct]’ The Londonderry Hornpipe ( 4 strain version ) [One of his compositions] Billy Pigg’s Hornpipe Random Jig ‘Skye Crofters, Dr McLeod of Alnwick, and the Swallow’s Tail’ Skye Crofters Dr McLeod of Alnwick Swallow’s Tail Mallorca | NSP | I don’t think any of these are on commercially available recordings. The first two, with Kinclaven Bridge and The Londonderry Hornpipe, certainly not, unless they were subsequently edited. | JG |
| 21.20-39.20 | Billy Pigg | The Blackthorn Stick The Irish Washerwoman The One-horned Sheep Rookland Lasses? – his own Alyth Burn? – Jimmy Shand Mr Michie? Rookland Lasses again? A Scott Skinner tune Unidentified strathspey ‘The Old Church’ The Marquis of Waterford 31.15 The Marquis of Lorne (odd version) Alston Flower Show (his own hybrid version, 2nd strain from another tune) ? Fragment Storrers 34.30 FC – That was Billy Pigg playing …. Then, apparently on the same pipes: Because he was a Bonny Lad Salmon Tails Up the Water Noble Squire Dacre Sweet Hesleyside Buttered Peas Heidenroeslein | NSP | 26.15-27.31 The march tune starting here is Mr Michie, which is by Angus Fitchet (d. 1998). I don’t know the composer of the variation – perhaps Billy himself. | JG |
| 39.30-end | Light orchestral music (BBC Light Programme?) | JG | |||
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