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

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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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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S4E19: Love and a Pipe, Highland Harry Back Again, with guests Ryan Behnke and Unwelcome Visitors

Jeremy Kingsbury — Sat, 08 Aug 2020 01:00:00 -0400

Tunes:
O’Farrell: Love and a Pipe Duet, Humours of Ardmore
Donald MacDonald, Highland Harry Back Again
Angus MacKay: Highland Harry Back Again
Robert Burns: My Harry was a Gallant Gay
Guest Track from Unwelcome Visitors: Young Tom Ennis, Jimmy Neary’s, The White Petticoat.

Big thanks to Ryan Behnke for Bagpipe Friendship and collaboration! Listen to his tunes on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bagpipebinky/ and check out his website: https://www.ryanbehnkeirishpiper.com/
You can check out Unwelcome Visitors here: https://www.facebook.com/unwelcomevisitors/
I bought their album on CD Baby which isn’t really doing that anymore, but looks like you can also buy their album on Itunes or listen on Spotify.

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O'Farrell Setting for Humours of Ardmore (Is sadly in a later volume I have yet to find Easy linking for)
O'Farrell setting for Love and a Pipe: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87781574
Robert Burns: My Harry was a Gallant Gay from 1790 in the Scots Musical Museum:
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/94550460
Donald MacDonald's setting for Highland Harry Back Again: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105683276
Hmm, Looking at the William Gunn Setting, I'm realizing the Traditional Tune Archive omitted all of the embellishments, so My Chanter version is hardly recognizable to this setting: https://ceolsean.net/content/Gunn/Book04/Book04%2017.pdf
Look through the entire collection on Ceol Sean's website: https://ceolsean.net/content/Gunn/Gunn_TOC.html
Angus McKay's Setting for Highland Harry Back Again: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105007047

S4 E18: Over the Water to Charlie, Greig’s Pipes, John Walsh Dance Music

Jeremy Kingsbury — Fri, 31 Jul 2020 23:00:00 -0400

John Walsh The Puff: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/90248231

John Walsh: The Laundry (Hot Pot): https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/90246647

John Walsh: Pot Stick or Shamboy (Over the water to Charlie): https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/90248183

James Oswald’s Over the Water to Charlie: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/94596980

Angus MacKay’s Over the Water to Charlie: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105007025

O’Farrell’s Setting for Shaun Bee: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87780422

I got the Obituary for the Composed of Greig’s Pipes here: https://tunearch.org/wiki/Annotation:Greig%27s_Pipes

O’Farrell’s setting for Greig’s Pipes: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87780146

Angus MacKay’s Greig’s Pipes: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105007465

For Grins since I haven’t heard back about permissions to include music from various sources you can check this link out for a cool Gaelic Song to the melody of Greig’s Pipes about a man that refuses to offer up needed fodder. http://tobarandualchais.co.uk/en/fullrecord/90782/1/LuckyDip

S4 E17 A Rock and a Wi Pickle Tow, Harp Tunes with Special Guest performance by Simon Chadwick Introduction Edward Bunting and William McGibbon collection

Jeremy Kingsbury — Sat, 25 Jul 2020 04:00:00 -0400

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

Donald MacDonald Setting of Dogs Bite Chapmen: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105683232

Donald MacDonald Setting of The Rock and the wee Pickle Tow: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105683078

James Oswald’s Setting of A Rock and a wi Pickle Tow: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/94595720

William McGibbon Setting of A Rock and a wi Pickle Tow: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105870582

William McGibbon Setting of If E’er you do well it’s a wonder: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105870010

Edward Bunting’s Setting of John O’Reily the Active https://www.itma.ie/digital-library/text/bunting-vol-1 ON PAGE 41

Simon Chadwick is performing these dots: http://digital-library.qub.ac.uk/digital/collection/p15979coll9/id/112/rec/8
You can Watch his performance here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOP6Zeb2CnE
If you want to watch the lectures that I reference in the episode you can watch them here:
Simon Chadwick: Early Irish Harp Discovery Day talk, Galway 2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zd06Ca6kZXE&t=1901s
I misspoke, I thought Simon was presenting at Altpibroch, but it was The Piobaireachd Society: Simon Chadwick: Clàrsach ceòl mór. Presentation to the Pìobaireachd Society Conference:
https://archive.org/details/ClarsachCeolMor

And Finally O’Farrell’s Setting for Kitty Tirrell: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87780470

S 4 E 15 When The King Enjoys His Own again the World will be Turned Upside Down

Jeremy Kingsbury — Sat, 11 Jul 2020 03:00:00 -0400

Unfortunately I’m having a hard time finding sheet music for the Bard’s Legacy, I still haven’t found the additional volumes of O’Farrell that I have in printed form.
Donald MacDonald’s The Perewig: https://digital.nls.uk/105682803
Donald MacDonald’s Cuir’s Chiste Moir Me & c. https://digital.nls.uk/105683166
Definitely losing Historian Points for this, but this Wikipedia article was a good background starting place for When the King Enjoys his Own Again
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_the_king_enjoys_his_own_again

See Moll in the Wad from O’Farrell: https://digital.nls.uk/94567500

For an awesome history of Women during the Revolutionary Period in the United States read Revolutionary Backlash: Women and Politics in the Early American Republic by Rosemarie Zagarri: https://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/14399.html

Season 4 Episode 13: Robin Power’s Fancy, My Woer Be Merry, Sir J.M. Mackenzie’s Reel, Earl Marischal Reel, Hills of Glenorchy, Humours of Last Night.

Jeremy Kingsbury — Sat, 27 Jun 2020 02:00:00 -0400

O’Farrell’s Setting for Robin Power’s Fancy: https://digital.nls.uk/87780650
Donald MacDonald’s My Woer Be Merry: https://digital.nls.uk/105682792
Both Angus MacKay tune settings are on the same page: Sir J.M. MacKenzie’s Reel.
https://digital.nls.uk/105007069
Donald MacDonald’s Earl Marischal: https://digital.nls.uk/105682561

Well I recorded A couple O’Farrell tunes, then Decided I play O’Farrell stuff way too fast and re-recorded it…then it was too slow I think! Ultimately, I decided to scrap that and go back to the fast version of my playing Humours of Last Night, without the Low Whistle, but I only decided that after recording the speaking portion of the podcast!

Check Out O’Farrell’s Pocket Companion Setting of Humours of Last Night: https://digital.nls.uk/87781034

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Episode 7: Cairngorms and Hamish Napier

Jeremy Kingsbury — Wed, 20 May 2020 01:45:00 -0400

Huge thanks to Hamish Napier! Check out his Bandcamp Page! We listened to tracks from The River, and The Woods Album.
https://hamishnapier.bandcamp.com/

Open up with a clip of me playing a Pibroch I wrote for Grand Portage on the side of the road in the Cairngorms National Park. Then I play a tune from James Aird’s collection “The Braes of Angus”.

Then three glorious tracks from Hamish Napier:
From the River: The May Fly
Woods: The Tree of Life/Lightning
Woods: The Highest Willows

And Conclude with my playing “Michael McDonald’s Jig” in Carnasserie Castle in Kilmartin Glen.

In the future when the world opens back up I desperately hope I get to revisit our hike in the Cairngorms up to Corrie Fee:
https://www.nature.scot/enjoying-outdoors/scotlands-national-nature-reserves/corrie-fee-national-nature-reserve
And also spend another night at Rosebank House (not Rose Cottage as I say in the audio) in Blairgowrie:
https://www.rosebank-blairgowrie.co.uk/en-US/homepage

Season 4 Episode 5 Bog an Lochan, Carolan's Concerto, Glasgow City Police, Noran Keeshna, Coosey Jig

Jeremy Kingsbury — Mon, 04 May 2020 00:15:00 -0400

Highland Pipes: Bog an Lochan (Angus MacKay 19th Century Tune)
Glasgow City Police (modern tune
Uilleann Pipes:
O'Carolan's Concerto (Eighteenth Century)
Noran Keeshna and Coosey Jig (From O'Farrell's Pocket Companion Early 19th Century)

I made an over dubbed recording for the last set. Really hoping to find a good private place to record inside again!
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