On 31 Oct 2009, rosspi...@aol.com wrote:
Over to Julia to fill in the details.
I was rather hoping someone else might chip in!
-Original Message-
From: Francis Wood oatenp...@googlemail.com
Subject: [NSP] Barrington Hornpipe
Can anyone provide any information about the
Hi Francis,
I expect you know this already, but for what it's worth
BARRINGTON HORNPIPE. English, Hornpipe. England, Northumberland. G Major.
Standard tuning. AABB. From A Tutor for the Northumbrian Small-pipes by J.W.
Fenwick, published in the late 1800's; composed by Thomas Todd. Raven
Hi Tim,
Thanks for pointing this out . . .I'd forgotten it was there.
Fenwick's Instruction book for the Northumbrian Small-Pipes was
published by the Northumbrian Small-Pipes Society in 1896.
Apart from scales in G and D, Fenwick includes only six tunes,
Coquetside, Holey Ha'penny,
To quote p. 85 of THE CLOUGH FAMILY book: Thomas Todd, an almost exact
contemporary of Tom Clough (II), and teacher of Tom Clough (III), who is mostly
remembered for composing The Barrington Hornpipe. It is said that this
latter was deliberately written to utilise all of the keys of the 7-key
