I'm currently putting what I hope are the finishing touches to the new
edition of Bewick's Pipe Tunes. I've reverted to Robert's Holy
Halfpenny title , corroborated by another early local source, rather
than the later Holey, and written The significance of either
interpretation is
I've always assumed Holey Ha'penny and as such used to pair it with The
Crookit Bawbee. In the late 1970s/early 80s I would dedicated this
pairing to the West Midlands Regional Crime Squad which at the time was
being investigated for being full of bent coppers...
Ian
Matt Seattle
Gibbons, John wrote:
Oddly 'Poll Hapenny', an Irish set dance, seems sometimes to appear as Holy
Ha'penny (I'll check tonight in Breathnach); -
I never thought of this as a personal name but assumed a reference to a
1/2d tax per head...maybe I have an odd way of thinking of
Ian Lawther wrote:
I've always assumed Holey Ha'penny and as such used to pair it with The
Crookit Bawbee. In the late 1970s/early 80s I would dedicated this
pairing to the West Midlands Regional Crime Squad which at the time was
being investigated for being full of bent coppers...
poor Matt should have known better than ask for anything
conclusive... ;)
Keep it coming, please
- poor Matt
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Breathnach is a good source of advice here - I recall he said something
I'd paraphrase as:
Tune titles are dummy labels for the tunes, without a 'real' meaning
of their own.
It is futile to enquire about 'The Mason's Apron' whether a
stonemason's or freemason's apron is
