Yes, the William Darling is Grace Darling's father. It's a lovely little
manuscript, currently on loan to the RNLI Museum at Bamburgh.
William Dobson's manuscript also contains a list of tunes he could play, neatly
divided up according to key signature; he obviously didn't feel the need to
Hi Anthony,
This gives a perfect example, the letters you know but not in the
order that I set them.
You attempted a joke that some may find amusing, probably because your
imagination could not crack the code. Perhaps this will soften your
hardline stance on written things, you would have
Considering the Irish musicians I have played with - predominantly ear-players,
some necessarily so,
none of them played *from* the dots, but many of the versions in the sessions
we played in were very close to literate sources such as O'Neill and
Breathnach. Some of these versions were widely
I was at a family party last weekend, where I played. As soon as he saw
my pipes, cousin of mine said he'd seen and heard pipes before.
Somewhere around 1949, his father was working away from home on the
construction of a dam and he went up to stay there. He told me that he
stayed at Cambo
A friend of mine has noticed a set of Northumbrian small pipes for sale
on e-bay and has asked me what I think of them. I have never heard of
the maker, Ian Ketchin, but he has a very impressive web page. Is
there a reason why he is not listed as a maker on any of the usual web
marga...@wyngarth7.fsnet.co.uk wrote:
My guess is that it may have been Jimmy Pallister
There are recordings of him playing three or four tracks on 'Morpeth Rant' -
Sounds like it was him from the Morpeth Rant notes
A retired blacksmith, living in Cambo, Jimmy Pallister started to learn
the
