You can download Crowley's tutor and tune book for free from www.piob.info. It's out of copyright
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- Thu Jan 01, 2015 3:22 pm
- Forum: Uilleann Pipe forum
- Topic: crowleys book of tunes
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2029
- Mon May 03, 2010 3:24 pm
- Forum: Uilleann Pipe forum
- Topic: Riddell's Collection
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1147
Riddell's Collection
I have just put online Robert Riddell's "Collection of Scotch, Galwegian and Border Tunes". This book was published in 1794, and thus is safely out of copyright. It's on my music page at http://www.piob.info and the direct URL is http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/musicfiles/manuscripts/riddel...
- Thu Dec 31, 2009 5:24 pm
- Forum: Uilleann Pipe forum
- Topic: Sutherland manuscript
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1543
Sutherland manuscript
I finally got round to scanning the Sutherland manuscript - over 250 pages of tunes, from about 1785, and one of the reference sources for the pastoral pipes. I wrote an article on this in An Piobaire a couple of years ago. Anyway, the images are now up at http://www.piob.info. Happy new year to all...
- Tue Aug 04, 2009 2:43 pm
- Forum: Uilleann Pipe forum
- Topic: Joe Kennedy sets - reviews?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3353
Re: Joe Kennedy sets - reviews?
I play a full set in C made for me by Joe. I waited two years for the full set and a further three for the regs, but it was worth it. I've played a lot of other sets, including sets by Geoff Wooff and Timothy Kenna, but this set I have from Joe is the favourite. It has a lovely mellow sound and the ...
- Wed Dec 19, 2007 4:53 pm
- Forum: Uilleann Pipe forum
- Topic: GHB Tunes on the UPs
- Replies: 48
- Views: 4338
Tadhg Crowley learned GHB first, then UP. His tutor, which was published in 1936, uses embellishments that will sit easily under the fingers of anyone who's also played the GHB. Part 1: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/musicfiles/manuscripts/crowley-tutor1.pdf Part 2: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/mu...
- Sat Sep 08, 2007 7:56 am
- Forum: Uilleann Pipe forum
- Topic: Fave version(s) of Colonel Frazer?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2661
Jarlath's version is nice and lively:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DImLYvVcYJs
Ross Anderson
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DImLYvVcYJs
Ross Anderson
www.piob.info
- Wed Aug 01, 2007 2:48 am
- Forum: Uilleann Pipe forum
- Topic: Ronan Browne CD
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2240
- Tue Jul 24, 2007 2:05 pm
- Forum: Uilleann Pipe forum
- Topic: Nineteenth century tunebook
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1021
Volume 3 of O'farrell is now up on www.piob.info. The direct URL is
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/ofarrellspc3.pdf
I also hope to get volume 4 up in the next week or so. Matt Seattle has lent me his copy so it's just a matter of finding the time to copy it and scan it (thanks, Matt!)
Ross
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/ofarrellspc3.pdf
I also hope to get volume 4 up in the next week or so. Matt Seattle has lent me his copy so it's just a matter of finding the time to copy it and scan it (thanks, Matt!)
Ross
- Sat Jul 21, 2007 11:18 am
- Forum: Uilleann Pipe forum
- Topic: Crowley tutor?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 2444
- Sun Jun 24, 2007 3:06 pm
- Forum: Uilleann Pipe forum
- Topic: The Dance Music of Seamus Ennis
- Replies: 83
- Views: 10671
Well, I've now played through much the Ennis book. It's fascinating and brilliant - the community owes a huge thankyou to Pat for spending so many years of his life on this work. There's one thing that needs fixing, though. I'm sure other pipers have come across this too but been too polite to say. ...
- Mon May 28, 2007 6:51 am
- Forum: Uilleann Pipe forum
- Topic: Nineteenth century tunebook
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1021
Nineteenth century tunebook
I have just scanned the first volume of "O'Farrell's Pocket Companion for the Irish or Union Pipes" and put it online at www.piob.info. I'll do the other volumes when I get round to it
Ross
Ross
- Mon May 07, 2007 6:33 am
- Forum: Uilleann Pipe forum
- Topic: MAIRSEAIL ALASDRUIM what kind of tune is this?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3019
- Thu Apr 26, 2007 11:01 am
- Forum: Uilleann Pipe forum
- Topic: Rook manuscript
- Replies: 3
- Views: 942
Rook manuscript
I have put online at www.piob.info a scan of the Rook manuscript. This dates from about 1840 and has over 1000 tunes; it gives us versions of a lot of tunes that lie between the earliest manuscript sources and the later printed collections. The manuscript is believed to be from North East England an...
- Sat Apr 14, 2007 6:42 am
- Forum: Uilleann Pipe forum
- Topic: The Ennis Crann
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2636
It's quite plausible that Seamus picked this up from the Highland pipes. There, there's a movement called a 'grip' which consists of a short seven-finger note (G on the highland chanter, D on the uilleann) split with a three-finger gracenote. In Highland notation, a grip from the two-finger note bac...
- Sat Feb 24, 2007 4:19 am
- Forum: Uilleann Pipe forum
- Topic: Development of narrow bore D chanters
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3593
My Kenna chanter plays in D as the note was understood in 1812 - near modern C sharp. If you go to the Early Music Show you can buy baroque flutes, oboes etc that are similarly tuned. There are whole orchestras who play in baroque pitch. So narrowbore D chanters are nothing new - they are where it a...