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From: "Julia Say" <[email protected]>
To: "nsp" <[email protected]>; "Dru Brooke-Taylor"
<[email protected]>; "Richard Shuttleworth"
<[email protected]>
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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