[NSP] Re: Sliabh na m'bhan (was Gaelic Pronunciation)

[Richard Shuttleworth]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Julia Say" <julia....@nspipes.co.uk>
To: "nsp" <nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu>; "Dru Brooke-Taylor" 
<drubrooketay...@btinternet.com>; "Richard Shuttleworth" 
<rshuttlewo...@sympatico.ca>
Sent: Saturday, February 06, 2010 5:16 AM
Subject: Re: Sliabh na m'bhan (was Gaelic Pronunciation)


Julia wrote:
I've never met Geoff either, but  in the 1960s he was a member of the 
London pipers
who travelled north to hear Billy Pigg amongst others. We have 
corresponded. In
1990 he kindly presented all his group's transcriptions to the NPS.
The book you have, Richard, was a very temporary production for one 
specific Pipers
Gathering. I am currently working on a version of the tune to be included 
in a book
of Billy's repertoire.

Thank you for placing Geoff Warren, now I know why I have never met him. 
How many more books on Billy Pigg can you find to write?  (Big grin here)

The tune in it may be heard here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Le1rntXsDsg

played by Gay McKeon who is the CEO of  the Uilleann Pipers Society (NPI). 
So
presumably should know.

Excellent!  Thank you!  This version varies quite a bit  from Billy's in the 
second part but it is certainly the same air.  I shall study this.

Another unaccompanied vocal version that Bart sent me can be found at 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Or-f3JSJtYA  It is interesting to compare the 
two.

Adrian recorded it on his cassette Jane of
Biddlestone and called it "Sliabh na mban" but with the English subtitle 
of
The Iron Man and attributed to Scott Skinner.

I don't know what happened there, I don't have the tape insert to hand, 
but Billy
played both "The Iron Man" by Scott Skinner, and Sliabh na m'bhan.  He may 
have
learnt Sliabh.... from the Doonans, again I don't know. There are 
recordings of
both, which were correctly identified by Adrian in the collection of 
material he
gave me.

This was a mistake on my part, I misread the liner notes.  Adrian plays 
Sliabh na m'Bhan followed by The Iron Man.  My liner notes are so old I 
didn't see the forward slash in the printing and mistook the English for a 
translation of the Irish.


Thank you, Julia, for separating my enquiry from the bitter correspondence 
it seems to have generated.  My apologies to the list for having unwittingly 
caused this latest spate of nastiness.

Cheers,

Richard 



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