Peter,you are a STAR! MERRY CHRISTMAS!
I was intending to have a break from all this web nonsense over the holidays but in view of Peter’s yuletide efforts, two tunes by Donncha O Briain are up at the usual place, http://www.rogermillington.com/siamsa/brosteve/tunetoc.html.
Posting these gives me particular pleasure since Peter tells me the clips were recorded on the one occasion that I saw Donncha perform. I remember him playing these two tunes.
Donncha was in a wheelchair and played with the whistle resting on a tray in front of him. As I recall he had to be helped to get the whistle into his mouth. Bearing this in mind, the sounds that came from his whistle were all the more astonishing.
I was further very stunned, although perhaps I should not have been, when he spoke. He had a deep, resonant and pleasant voice, and spoke eloquently, which coming from his broken body struck me as surprising and tragic.
Wow the Donncha O’Briain track is so nicE! Wish he was commercially recorded (Kieran Collins too!)
Eld, he was [don’t you read the inroductions] there’s a Gael Linn lp form 1979, it’s lovely and they should make the effort of re-issuing it on CD.
Oh right, it does say that he has an LP.. I hope it gets reissued on CD. I havena an LP player so LPs are not much use to me.
Mystery whistleplayer Margaret Barry gives us (by way of Peter’s tape collection) the 6-part hornpipe, Johnny Cope. Sylvain’s fine transcription is now up at http://www.rogermillington.com/siamsa/brosteve/tunetoc.html.
I just finished the notation of a Paddy Carty flute tune, I hope to have second tune in the recording finished shortly and do a write up on the two. Up sometime during the week.
Peter’s transcription of Paddy Carty is now up at the usual place, http://www.rogermillington.com/siamsa/brosteve/tunetoc.html.
I’ve also been busy (at long last) transferring to this site the series of Micho Russell transcriptions that Peter did in August and September and which have been hosted on Teri’s site.
Three flute tunes from Micho, Scotch Mary, Fermoy lasses and The reel with the birl up so far. They’re great!
The transcriptions are such a treasure! Thank you again, Peter & Steve, Teri & Sylvain, for you work! Steve I also like the new look of the tune toc page.
I’ve been listening to the Paddy Carty tune. I’ve loved that tune ever since I learned it off the Altan record where Frankie Kennedy (RIP) plays it on a Bb flute and it is interesting to hear it played faster. A question, though: Carty seems to be shifting the tempo a bit as he goes a long and listening to it, it gives me a bit of “swimming” sensation. Is that characteristic of his style?
As a note, I found the tune, in a slightly different version in an Ossian tunebook (Ed Loesberg) some years back, where it was called “Eddie Moloney’s Favorite”. I have also seen the names Drogheda Lasses and Mary of the Grove for it.
Jeremy, over at http://www.thesession.org notes the following:
“I can confirm that this is a Paddy Doorhy composition. I received an email from Paddy’s daughter, Delia Flannery, and when I quized her on this tune, she said it was a composition of her father’s”
FWIW.
There was a bit of deliberation over what title to give the tune, I had given it the working title of ‘Carty’s Pigeon’ which was applied on Pat 'O Conor’s CD. Of the four names supplied by Norbeck [the ones Bloomfield also quotes] I found a totally different tune in other sources for the Drogheda Lasses. Both Doorhy and Moloney as names pointed to the fact that the tune was probably nameless in East Galway [write a book with that title now, ‘Nameless in East Galway’]so the last minut desicion was to let it ru nas an anonymous one.
Just to keep you keen here’s the stuff that’s i nthe pipeline:
I meant to record Brid Donohue for the transcriptions, unfortunately she has bee nto hte house a couple of times but we never really got anything down. For the moment I have set aside a few tunes of her’s I recorded in 1987 these will go up some time next week I hope.
Going through the great box of unidexed tapes hoping to find a batch of Donncha O Briain recording I know thatis there somewhere, I have come across some other wonderful stuff; Paul MacGrattan playing on a whistle made by Nick Adams out of a whalebone washed up on the ciast near Miltown Malbay. Wonderful playing but as yet I am not completely certain where the recording came from but if it turns out copyright free we’ll do that one.
Also in the pipeline is a set of hornpipes played exremely virtuoso and a bit tongue in cheek by Galway Whistle and Fluteplayer Joe Skelton.
Keep checking this space.
I have some tapes I made of Peter Horan in a class he was teaching summer 2001 that I would be happy to provide for transcription. But I admit I’m having a hard time seeing how that would be more legal/ethical than just, say, working from his solo cuts on the album he made with Fred Finn.
On 2003-01-13 09:17, colomon wrote:
I have some tapes I made of Peter Horan in a class he was teaching summer 2001 that I would be happy to provide for transcription. But I admit I’m having a hard time seeing how that would be more legal/ethical than just, say, working from his solo cuts on the album he made with Fred Finn.
If you know him from class, it’s probably easiest to just drop him a line and ask. It would be nice to have you, and others, too, do a transcription.
Well, people playing publicly is a different thing than a copyrighted recording. The Paul McGrattan recording was possibly taped from radio, which would mean we wouldn’t use it without permission. I think though we are pretty safe ethically, if we started selling the transcriptions or the recordings it would be a horse of a different coulour but as it is we are not.
Two Brid Donohue tunes, The Steampacket and Ambrose Moloney are ready to go up.
On 2003-01-13 15:04, Bloomfield wrote:
If you know him from class, it’s probably easiest to just drop him a line and ask.
I doubt he remembers me (certainly not by name), and I’ve no idea how to contact him directly.
It would be nice to have you, and others, too, do a transcription.
I don’t know, I think the next thing I’m going to tackle is going to be Carmel Gunning’s Pigeon on the Gate/Devils of Dublin, which is definitely a copyrighted recording…
Peter’s transcriptions of two reels played by Brid Donohue (The steampacket and Ambrose Moloney’s) are now up http://www.rogermillington.com/siamsa/brosteve/tunetoc.html. Enjoy them.
Peter has supplied a clip that will blow the cobwebs out of your fipple - a couple of fancy-pants hornpipes played with dazzling panache and skill by (Peter thinks!) Joe Skelton.
They are “The locomotive” and “The acrobat”. Sylvain has transcribed them both, the first in a basic version, and the second in much more detail.
For now only Locomotive is up but Acrobat will follow very shortly.
Enjoy!
On 2003-02-15 20:21, StevieJ wrote:
Peter has supplied a clip that will blow the cobwebs out of your fipple - a couple of fancy-pants hornpipes played with dazzling panache and skill by (Peter thinks!) Joe Skelton.
This is great, Steve! Sylvain’s commentary is also dazzling: What a wealth of detail showing how “Joe Skelton makes extensive and playful use of fiddle techniques adapted to the whistle.”
Very instructive and enjoyable addition to the site. Thanks to all.
Carol
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