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| Tape/Side | NPS-JFC-C-022-01 | Length m | 42m | Date rec’d | ?? | Quality | Quality generally good but some wow and flutter throughout tape |
| Title | Ray Fisher-Ross, Tommy Breckons, Basil Clough, Joe Hutton, Billy Pigg Trio Pipe-music -various dubbing | Contents | Misc – dubbing? | ||||
| Notes | |||||||
| Help? | 1. Which bits if any are dubbed from records? 2. Confirm players, identify tunes. | ||||||
| Start-End | Performer | Tunes/Titles | Instruments | Notes | by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0:0-5:30 | Billy Pigg | Skye Crofters Dr McLeod of Alnwick Swallowtail Reel Mallorca | Northumbrian Smallpipes (NSP) | This is one of the sets on Border Minstrel – sounds very similar but needs more work to determine whether it’s the same track redubbed or a different performance | MD |
| 5:30-13:30 | Billy Pigg | Blackthorn Stick Irish Washerwoman Old Horned Sheep Rookland Lasses Alyth Burn Unid Rookland Lasses (again) Mr Michie (comp. A Fitchet) Unid Unid | NSP | AL | |
| Billy Pigg (ID from style and tune versions) | Marquis of Waterford Marquis of Lorne Alston Flower Show Unid NB Marquis of Lorne is not the standard version. | NSP | Quality good but occasional wow and flutter | MD | |
| 17:48- 20’55 | Tommy Breckons? (MD) Diana Blackett Ord? But more likely Billy Pigg (JG) | Because He Was A Bonny Lad Salmon Tails Noble Squire Dacre Sweet Hesleyside Buttered Peas Heidenröslein | NSP | Breckons ident by elimination from tape heading – needs confirmation by someone who heard him play. (MD) Argument for D B-Ord The pipes used for this set of tunes have a similar sound to those in the following tunes, where I have no doubt the player is Diana Blackett-Ord. (JG) The playing style uses very few ornaments, and those are very simple; there’s a strong contrast between tight staccato and very legato passages. This is unlike Tommy Breckons, whose style is more florid, but similar to recordings of DB-O. Argument for Billy Pigg Yet the sound of the pipes is different from Diana Blackett-Ord’s G major tunes at the end of the tape; there is more use of open fingered ornaments; the drones are a bit more strident, more like the sound of Billy Pigg’s set – but the style is much simpler than most recordings of Billy. However the tunes and style correspond very closely to NPS-JFC-E-018-01 at 34’53”, labelled “Billy Pigg original tape No.1”. They may well be the same performance, though the speed and pitch are different, this being sharper and faster. Any difference may thus be an artefact of tape speed. Are the other Billy Pigg tracks here also on that tape? NPS-JFC-E-018-01 needs to be checked carefully – it hasn’t been annotated yet. I have no doubt that this set is played by Billy Pigg (JG) Quality good but some wow and flutter throughout This air is Heinrich Werner’s tune for the song Heidenröslein. | MD JG MD JG |
| 22:05-41:45 end | Joe Hutton? ? (MD) Diana Blackett-Ord (JG) | Westering Home, Nancy, Blow Ye Winds Southerly, Rose Tree, My Love Is But A Lassie Yet, Redesdale Hornpipe, The Steamboat Hexham Races, Proudlock’s Hornpipe, Friendly Visit, Blackthorn Stick, Father o’ Flynn and ten more. Unidentified female voice at end. (MD) | NSP Solo | Joe Hutton ident based on tape label and playing style? – needs confirmation. Live recording as one or two stops and starts and some repeated tunes Quality good but wow and flutter noticeable on slow airs. | MD |
| Westering Home Nancy Boys of Bluehill Londonderry Hornpipe Blow the Wind Southerly Bonny Tyneside Corn Rigs Harvest Home Jackson’s Morning Brush Father O’Flynn My Love is but a Lassie Yet The Rose Tree [The Redesdale The Greencastle The Steamboat] (this set of three tunes played twice) Hexham Races Proudlock’s The Friendly Visit The Blackthorn Stick (unusual version of strain 2) The Irish Washerwoman.(JG) | The style and the pipes are very different from Joe Hutton. Beyond doubt, the player is Diana Blackett-Ord – a woman with a refined accent, playing a set with a distinctive sweet tone, including the 6 tunes of hers we know about from other recordings. NB All these tunes are traditional, no copyright issues. | JG | |||
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