Manuel Waldesco wrote:
> Hello there, I'm doing from time to time some research on
> pennywhistle history...
There was a composer of tunes in the 19th Century called Carl Volti
(real name Archibald Mulligan) who contributed a number of tunes to the
popular Kerr's Merry Melodies series. He seemed to be a prominent
fiddler, but I only have his word for that. He started out on the
whistle, and indeed started a whistle band with his friends. That must
have been during the 1850s or early 1860s. See
www.argonet.co.uk/users/gatherer/scottish/artists/fiddlers/volti.html
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