On 6th Feb Julia Say wrote:
That's interesting, Margaret. I remember Joe's views on both Irish
music in
Northumberland, and on Billy Pigg and his playing, from conversations
with him in
the early 90s, at the Rothbury course, at Alnwick, and from playing
bass with him
and
On 5 Feb 2010, Richard Shuttleworth wrote:
Although the tune on page 44 of book 2 is a really nice tune, it isn't the
same one that caused my original enquiry.
I think it is a relation but where it came from I have no idea.
your tune (Slievenamon)
agrees with a tune identified as
Joe Hutton played this tune in the early 1980s, and that's where I
learned it - his version was basically the same as Gay McKeon's. When I
asked him where he got the tune, he couldn't remember.
Somewhere I have a poor quality cassette recording of Joe and me
playing it at one of
On 6 Feb 2010, Margaret Watchorn wrote:
Joe Hutton played this tune in the early 1980s, and that's where I learned
it - his version was basically the same as Gay McKeon's. When I asked him
where he got the tune, he couldn't remember.
That's interesting, Margaret. I remember Joe's views on
: Sliabh na m'bhan (was Gaelic Pronunciation)
On 6 Feb 2010, Margaret Watchorn wrote:
Joe Hutton played this tune in the early 1980s, and that's where I learned
it - his version was basically the same as Gay McKeon's. When I asked him
where he got the tune, he couldn't remember.
That's
- Original Message -
From: Julia Say julia@nspipes.co.uk
To: nsp nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu; Dru Brooke-Taylor
drubrooketay...@btinternet.com; Richard Shuttleworth
rshuttlewo...@sympatico.ca
Sent: Saturday, February 06, 2010 5:16 AM
Subject: Re: Sliabh na m'bhan (was Gaelic
On 6 Feb 2010, Richard Shuttleworth wrote:
How many more books on Billy Pigg can you find to write? (Big grin here)
The existing one (the 1997 book with the biography and interviews in) is
effectively out of print - there are a few copies left which will be available
to
NPS members only.
On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 6:21 PM, Julia Say [1]julia@nspipes.co.uk
wrote:
On balance I think it's been of
great use to a large number of people over the years.
Sure. And everybody has a bad slow air day once in a while, no big
deal.
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References
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Message - From: Julia Say julia@nspipes.co.uk
To: nsp nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu; Dru Brooke-Taylor
drubrooketay...@btinternet.com; Richard Shuttleworth
rshuttlewo...@sympatico.ca
Sent: Saturday, February 06, 2010 6:21 PM
Subject: [NSP] Re: Sliabh na m'bhan (was Gaelic Pronunciation)
On 6 Feb
