[NSP] Re: Holy/Holey Halfpenny
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 wrote: 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 unclear. Is it? Does anyone actually KNOW, rather than have an interesting theory? Cheers Matt -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
[NSP] Re: Holy/Holey Halfpenny
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... ;) I've already suggested a link to either the pub game shove halfpenny, where discs with holes were often used, or possibly the holey dollar (see Wikepedia). Or maybe the tune writer had a sweetheart called Holly Halfpenny and couldn't spell her name? Anita -- Anita Evans To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
[NSP] Re: Holy/Holey Halfpenny
poor Matt should have known better than ask for anything conclusive... ;) Keep it coming, please - poor Matt -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
[NSP] Re: Holy/Holey Halfpenny
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 meant. But I'd add that if one found hard evidence it had been written for a Masonic Ball, one might hazard a guess. Such hard evidence is naturally thin on the ground after 2 centuries or more John -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
