http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nxWlinJFc7A anyone got the dots for tis setting?(a few minutes in) All the versions on tunepal don’t go this high
I made a notation of Ennis playing the tune that appeared in An Piobaire during the eighties (85-ish). That aside, it’s not really hard to learn if you have a recording.
hi, can someone name the 2 reels that he plays at the start of this clip
The Sailor’s Cravat, I am waiting for you
Here you go:
X: 1
T: Queen Of The Fairies
R: hornpipe
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: Dmaj
(3abc’|:d’afa bgeg | !trill!f2 ecd2 ef | gbag fedf |1 (3gfe dc A2 (3abc’ :|2 (3gfe dc d2 AG |
(3FGA dA (3FGA df | gbef gbeA | (3FGA dA (3FGA df | (3gfe cA (3gfe cA | (3FGA dA (3FGA df |
~g3a bc’d’b | afdf bgec |1 d2dc d2AG |2 d2dc d2 |
This is just a quick stab at what Liam plays. Never paid attention but I seem to have learned this from Andy Conroy, he played d’c’d’b afdf etc instead of d’afa bgec. Ennis played something like dDfe d2AG at the end of the 2nd part, I think this tune is included in the Pat Mitchell book.
On the Conroy recording Barry O’Neill announces the tune as “Conroy’s Dream” as Andy seems to be having a hard time getting that 3rd octave d note…then he complains a bit petutantly about it all, and Barry lectures him on how he must soldier on…the fellow who gave me the copy of the tape described it all as Barry giving Andy a lesson in how to suck eggs. 
Really funny stuff.
Later this evening I’ll do a final check on that ABC, add some of Liam’s variations, and post it over at the Session as a variant setting of the Queen Of The Fairies hornpipe that already has an entry there. For now, all of the above triplets should be played staccato, of course.
Sounds like a very share-able tape Kevin.. almost a must for those wot grewd up in Doblin .
Without doubt I sent Mark Walstrom a copy of that. It came from Tom Wilsbach, who also recorded the 1974 tionol which I got a copy of, then passed it along, and was subsequently entered as the “Mark Walstrom Collection” in the Seamus Ennis book. Anything Mark received was copied and sent along to Miltown Malbay post haste, far as I know. Maybe you’ve a copy in a drawer or closet?
Incidentally Brad Angus says Mark might head up this way for the tionol in Feb. That would be great, haven’t seen him in ages. Any of his sets of pipes is off the scale on the coolness meter, you might say, like the Wooff exhibition set with the “rubbish bin” ferrules in sterling. 
Gr8 Kevin, many thanx for ABCs
Oh, the best and funniest description of ‘those ferrules’ I have yet heard… I was contemplating making another set, with the ‘Corrogated Iron’ ferrules, only the other day..
My copy of the 1974 Tional recordings came from Ronnie Wathen, who claimed to have made the tapes himself… perhaps a lot of people had embraced the new technology by that time…
My copy of the 1974 Tional recordings came from Ronnie Wathen, who claimed to have made the tapes himself… perhaps a lot of people had embraced the new technology by that time…
You can actually hear Ronnie ask the name of the hornpipe, Ennis replies ‘The Queen of the Fairies’.
I don’t see that one on NPU…
Do you-guys know where I can find it?
Well, obviously the three of us talking about it are along a line of transmission of the tape. I don’t have it digitised but will see what I can do tomorrow, if we have power, and a roof (it’s a bit windy, gusting 125km/h already and intensifying).
Ennis did play the same tune as a demonstration of tight piping for the 1950-ish BBC recordings so you may find it there.
I probably have the tape somewhere but it was very heavily played, by myself, and was a copy of the original at best.
Much of the allure of the playing of those great old players is, for me, the Passion, the Spirit, the Emotion that they brought to their piping.
Music played.. ho hum… “just another recital… blah blah blah” without the verve and character, is especially boring on the Pipes, of all instruments.
Hello
I learned the tune from Andy in the early eighties. He said that he got it from Tommy Reck.
I played it back to Tommy in the back room of the Central Hotel in Miltown Malbay late one night and Tommy said “not another effin third d tune”. He then played a flawless rendition of it; just to show that he could still play the third d. His version tallied with Andy’s version.
Hope the code red storm doesn’t effect you too much Peter.
Cheers
John
Hope the code red storm doesn’t effect you too much Peter.
Thanks John. So far it just very loud and angry sounding, lots of water on the roads and we just had to drag )part of) a tree off the road just down from the house.
Stay dry, all. We’re getting a foggy Christmas here, little danger thankfully unless I walk into a tree… 
My tape of the 1971 tionol has Ennis playing that, only once through though. Ronnie made that tape. NPU’s site has audio of Seamus at the 1974 tionol - my tape is earlier or later in the day/night, different cuts - it’s what Pat transcribed. The NPU tape has very interesting tunes as well though, like yet another effin’ 3rd D tune, the Girl Who Broke My Heart, generally a fiddle tune in G with F naturals; Seamus plays it in G and just lifts up the chanter for the F, resulting in neither sharp nor nat; then he plays it in D with the 2nd part having arpeggios that go fe|d2fa d’afd | c2eg c’gec | d2fa d’afd | gfga gfec | d2 etc. Good practice for whacking that C natural key.
It was Craig Fischer who described those ferrules as such. Pretty funny. My impression was that they looked a bit like a car’s air filter. Amazing set altogether. For the curious, the ferrules are “fluted,” they have vertical grooves cut in the silver. There might be a pic at Pat D’Arcy’s site.
Oh, and on that 1974 tape you hear about 15 different tape records click-clacking all throughout, so it’s nobody’s tape and everybody’s!
I have dug it out so there you go: Séamus Ennis playing in Termonfeckin, Co Louth at the NPU Tionol 1971, recorded by Ronnie Wathen. Geoff Wooff sent me the tape early 1985. I was in a good stretch of learning/absorbing mood, I had all tunes on it on our next meeting a few months later. The end of it also has Geoff demonstrating the first narrow bore D but we’ll keep that one in the vault.
Thank you very much! 
I it is now on my desktop to listen to.
And here’s AC: Andy Conroy - Queen of the Fairies.
WOW! Thank you so much! Christmas goes on and on! 