Hello All I've just returned from a very chilly but enjoyable weekend in my phone/technology-free north Northumbrian cottage to find over 50 emails waiting for me. I've read one or two about pipes & other instruments and would like to mention that David Hillery used his pipes with a variety of instruments played by "Canny Fettle" these included fiddle, concertina and mandolin in the late 60s. It never occurred to me that this was unusual and listening to the old guys bears this out. Jimmy Little recalls pipes and fiddles at his grandfather's house in the 30s. I have also heard references to the fiddler Blind Jack of Knaresborough playing with a "northern piper" in the Harrogate region in the 1700s. As Blind Jack was a contemporary of Jamie Allan David Hillery used to fancy that Jamie A was the piper. Whoever it was it does seem that mixed pipe duets was fairly well established by the time of the competitions mentioned (50s). Cheers Anthony
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