Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History Podcast - Episodes Tagged with “Border Pipes”

Bonus Episode 2

Jeremy Kingsbury — Sun, 25 Jul 2021 16:00:00 -0400

This is basically a mini album. I've been listening to old episodes and wanted all the tunes in Jackson's Celebrated Irish Tunes in one place.

What do you think of the new fonts and background? The font is as close as I could find for Robert Bremner's font in his printed collection. But I'm not sure the History nerd-ness of Marble paper and eighteenth century font outweighs the readability of a Sans Serif font and white space.

If you want to see any of these tunes they are all on NPU's website, or Cape Irish:

http://www.capeirish.com/webabc/working/source.folders/jcit/jcit_table.html

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Season 5 Episode 07 Lowland Pipes! And Season Intermission

Jeremy Kingsbury — Sat, 06 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0500

Tunes:
James Aird: Mucking Geordies Byre, Lads Wi the Kilts
William Dixon: Hey for Newbiggin, Stool of Repentance, Minuet: Edward the Second, Over the Dyke and Till Her Laddy,
David Young: Border Reel
David Rowlands: Jim Harding’s Waltz
Billy Pigg: Skye Crofters
David Glen: Dr. Bett’s Super

If you want to listen to the Dungeons and Dragons podcast I contribute music to (very) occasionally before it is off the air check it out here:
https://www.thevgat.com/

I first heard Jim Harding’s Waltz from David Rowlands band back in the Myspace days, in fact I think I played it on the podcast a decade ago or so. David was kind enough to share the music with me, you can hear his playing of it as a trio with his lovely low D Swayne Border Pipes:
https://soundcloud.com/dave-rowlands-2/jim-hardings-waltz

1780s James Aird’s Mucking Geordies Byre (Also known as Tam Glen on same page as Lads wi the Kilts later in the episode)
https://archive.org/stream/selectionofscotc00rugg#page/n59/mode/1up

Duncan Johnstone: I thought I was playing this from Gordon Dunan’s Piping Centre recital series, but he doesn’t play Johnstone into Crossing the minch on that stellar album, so I’m not sure who I am poorly mimicking here. This is Duncan playing it on his album Thunderstruck though:
https://youtu.be/P2QCkUtrN7g?t=111

1733: William Dixon’s Settings for William Dixon: Hey for Newbiggin, Stool of Repentance, Minuet: Edward the Second, Over the Dyke and Till Her Laddy,
Are all from from Matt Seattle’s publication:
https://www.mattseattle.scot/product-page/the-master-piper-new-edition

1780s James Aird: Lads wi the Kilts
https://archive.org/stream/selectionofscotc00rugg#page/39/mode/1up

Pre-1968 Billy Pigg’s Skye Crofters. I went looking for this tune because James MacDonald Reid played it at an early LPBS competition. He said he played as Pigg played it, avoiding all the excessive gracing, I’m sure I did not come close to emulating it, but I tried! Here is Billy Pigg playing it:
https://youtu.be/XS7Iy8Ywlrc
Matt Seattle kindly posted his transcription of this tune on the Northumbrian Piping Newsgroup Facebook group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/131491660229952/

It is also in the Book of Billy Pigg’s tunes, part 2 that was published by the Northumbrian Pipers Society, but I can’t find it for sale, but thanks to Julia Say for getting the information from her book, you can still buy part one on the Northumbrian Pipers Society website:
https://www.northumbrianpipers.org.uk/product/billy-pigg-tunes-for-the-northumbrian-smallpipes/

1880s David Glen’s Dr. Bett’s Super
https://ceolsean.net/content/DGlen/Book12/Book12%2010.pdf

1734 David Young’s Border Reel. I have used the copies available from Ross’s Music Page:
https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/music/index.html
The actual PDF download is the below link:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/musicfiles/manuscripts/drummond1.pdf

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S4E20 Edward Bunting Revisited, Bonny Portmore, Have You Seen My Valentine with guest Simon Chadwick

Jeremy Kingsbury — Sat, 15 Aug 2020 00:00:00 -0400

Once again Big thanks to Simon Chadwick to agreeing to be on the Podcast this week! Check Simon’s current projects out here: http://simonchadwick.net/

Bunting’s The Chanter’s Tune: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/104979293
Clarke’s Setting for “The Song of the Chanter” I forgot to mention it has a different title I just got it off of Tune Archive: https://tunearch.org/wiki/Chanter%27s_Tune

Bunting’s Have you Seen My Valentine? https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105814783
Simon Chadwick’s Youtube Video if you want to see him play: https://youtu.be/i9y-GxC2fR8
Bunting’s The Chorus Jig: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/104978952
William Dixon’s Manuscript is available here: https://www.mattseattle.scot/product-page/the-master-piper-new-edition
Neil Gow’s Setting for Drummond Castle: https://imslp.org/wiki/A_Second_Collection_of_Strathspey_Reels,_etc._(Gow,_Niel)#IMSLP338815 (Go to page 8)

Donald MacDonald’s The Weary Maid:
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105683012

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