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S 08 E 23 Witch Treatises Halloween Special with Tunes from Patrick Hutchinson and Autorickshaw Part 2
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History Podcast
10/25/24 • 72 min
Tunes:
Autorickshaw: J'entends le Moulin
Patrick Hutchinson: The Driver's March, Darby the Driver
Thompson: A Cock Laird fu' Caigie
John Bell: Little Wat ye who's coming
William Vickers: Well Dane Jack
Genevan Psalster/Tim Cummings: Genevan 65
McGibbon: She Rose and Let Me in
Glen: The Witch's Stane
Albyn's Anthology?: Twa Corbies
Atkinson: Saw ye not my Meggy
Thank you to Autorickshaw for the use of J'entends le Moulin off their Album Meter, check it out on Bandcamp:
https://autorickshaw.bandcamp.com/album/meter
Thanks to Patrick Hutchinson for his track The Driver’s March and Darby the Driver.
He is currently taking students at Boston Irish Music School and around.
https://bostonirishmusicschool.com/
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I highly recommend the Witches of Scotland Podcast:
https://www.witchesofscotland.com/podcast
I particularly reference the first several episodes featuring a conversation with Dr. Julian Goodare
Check out the excellent resource on Scottish Witchcraft trials:
The Survey of Scottish Witchcraft:
http://witches.hca.ed.ac.uk/home/
Check out Hans Peter Broedel’s Book (Who’s Library I’ve been borrowing):
The Malleus Maleficarum and the construction of witchcraft Theology and Popular Belief
https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/35002
I also Rather enjoyed Gordon Mooney’s articles for background reading and some potential threads to pull at.
https://www.oddscotland.com/pipers-tales-the-devil-and-piping
WITCH TRIAL SOURCES:
1486 Malleus Maleficarum by Heinrich Kramer
https://archive.org/details/b3136245x/page/n9/mode/2up
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1597: Daemonologie by King James VI
https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1475-1640_daemonologie-in-forme-o_james-i_1597_0
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MUSIC
2017: J'entends le Moulin from Autorickshaw’s Meter
https://autorickshaw.bandcamp.com/album/meter
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2024: The Driver’s March and Darby the Driver from Patrick Hutchinson.
Take classes from Patrick Hutchinson here:
https://bostonirishmusicschool.com/
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1720: Cock Laird Fu Caige from Thompson’s Orpheus Caledonius
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/74569844
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1812: Little Wat ye who’s coming from John Bell’s Manuscript http://www.farnearchive.com/farneimages/jpgs/R1005700.jpg
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1776: Well Dane Jack from William Vickers’ Manuscript
http://www.farnearchive.com/farneimages/jpgs/R0311300.jpg
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1543: Genevan 65 from Louis Bourgeois
https://hymnary.org/tune/genevan_65
I’m roughly playing Timothy Cummings setting, available here:
https://birchenmusic.com/product/the-pipers-hymnal-printed-collection/
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1746: She Rose and Let Me In from McGibbon https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105003571
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1870: Witch’s Stane from JR Glen
https://ceolsean.net/content/JRGlen/Book03/Book03%2028.pdf
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1829: The Twa Corbies (Lyrics) From Robert Chambers Historic Ballads
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87741661
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1877: The Twa Corbies Melody from “Being transcripts of the music of others, including W. Thomson's Orpheus Caledonius and Alexander S...
s7 E24 Halloween Special Episode With Guest Host John Charles, and contributions from Jenna Bagpipes, Leslie Anne Harrison, ChristianWandzala, Cassandre Balosso-Bardin and Eileen Budd
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History Podcast
10/21/23 • 63 min
Tunes:
William Campbell: Halloween, Smith’s Orange and Fork
William Campbell: The Crown Prince, Lord St. Orville, Arabella, The Royal Visitors,
John Sutherland: Alas Poor Soul, The Devil’s Dream,
Abraham MacIntosh: The Witches Hill
Joseph Lowe: The Warlocks, The Witches
Jenna Dennison: Devil’s in the Corners
Leslie Anne Harrison: Da Trowie Burn
Christian Wandzala: Bonnie Susie Cleland
Cassandre Balosso-Bardin: Water Nymph aka “Vittrans polska” by Emelius Lundberg
Eileen Budd: Stories of Scottish Arthurian Legends
John Charles: Am Bròn Binn
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Thanks to Beth Clark-McDonal, for the use of “Jock O Piper” for the Cover art, Check it out here:
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/jack-o-piper-beth-clark-mcdonal.html?product=poster
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This episode wouldn’t be possible without the efforts of John Charles! “Dr. Jeremy Kingsbury’s Official archivist and biographer!” Thank you John Charles.
I join him in offering my sincere thanks to our guest performers whose links appear in chronological order:
(Note that I am also indebted to the recordings of Leslie and Cassandre from their Performances at the Pipers’ Gathering, 2023, and the recording of Greg Lotta.
You can check out Pipers’ Gathering Here: https://www.pipersgathering.org/
And Greg Lotta’s Work here: https://www.youtube.com/@glatta0
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Jenna Dennison:
Known on Social Media as “Jenna Bagpipes” I first met Jenna on Tik Tok where I saw her ripping High Bs on Highland pipes! She’s a delightful Bagpiper’s Bagpiper to follow on social media.
If you want music to “Devil’s in the Corners” you can get it by joining her Patreon feed:
Montreal Piping & Drumming School
http://www.mpds.ca/en/
social media / website links
https://www.youtube.com/@jennabagpipes
https://www.tiktok.com/@jennabagpipes
https://www.patreon.com/jennabagpipes
https://www.jennadennison.com
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Leslie Anne Harrison:
You can Check out Leslie Anne Harrison’s projects on her website:
https://www.leslieanneharrison.com/
Be sure to check out her Flute books, “Playing Outside the Lines”
https://www.leslieanneharrison.com/store
and her “Irish Flute Library” https://www.leslieanneharrison.com/the-irish-flute-library
I took the recording from Greg Lotta’s Recording here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IHALOj6JhE&t=941s
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Christian Wandzala
You can see some of Christian’s musical projects on Social media here:
https://www.facebook.com/catandhare
and his band, Leaky Bellows with his wife Emily Sine Nomine! (CONGRATULATIONS!) and John Charles Here: https://www.facebook.com/trollmoss
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Cassandre Balosso-Bardin
You can check out Cassandre’s extensive work on her website here:
http://www.cassandrebalossobardin.com/
Be sure also to check out the “International Bagpipe Organization” which she founded:
https://www.internationalbagpipeorganisation.com/
I took the recording from Greg Lotta, which you can watch here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPrZ5h0lINI&t=195s
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Eileen Budd:
You can check out Eileen on Social Media, she puts out stellar 60 second Scottish Stories on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/eileenbudd/?hl=en
She also has her own podcast, Scottish Folk:
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/scottish-folk/id1674005044
You should also check out her adaptation of the Ossian Poems:
S7 E21 John Sutherland's Manuscript Part 1
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History Podcast
09/10/23 • 65 min
Tunes:
Sutherland: Cameronian Rant, this wants to be turn’d, The Lady’s Favourite, Paddy Whack, Kiss about the Hay Stacks, Salt Beef and Dumplings, The Peasant’s Dance, The Nosegay, Duncan Davison, Nancy Larson, Balty Horah, Trip it Up Stairs, Fanny’s Fancy
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I'm happy to be supported by The Quietpiper AKA Robert Felsburg, check out his work here:
https://www.thequietpiper.com/
All of the tunes this week come from John Sutherland’s Manuscript available on Ross’s Music Page: https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/music/index.html
John Sutherland was a Piper from Aberdeenshire in the late eighteenth century.
His manuscript was hand written and likely from around 1785.
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I highly Recommend Ross Anderson’s Introduction to Sutherland:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/Sutherland-Manuscript.pdf
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1785: GHB Fingering Chart, Cameronian Rant and “this wants to be turn’d” are all available here:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/musicfiles/manuscripts/sutherland/suth-fm.pdf
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1785: The Lady’s Favourite, Paddy Whack, Kiss about the Hay Stacks, Salt Beef and Dumplings, The Peasant’s Dance, The Nosegay, Duncan Davison, Nancy Larson, Balty Horah, Trip it Up Stairs, Fanny’s Fancy
Are all available in this PDF:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/musicfiles/manuscripts/sutherland/suth-pp-1-40.pdf
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You can Listen to my Trip it up the stairs episode here:
https://www.wetootwaag.com/s6e05
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You can support the Podcast by joining the Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/wetootwaag
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Tell your piping and history friends about the podcast!
Checkout my Merch Store on Bagpipeswag:
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https://jeremykingsbury.bandcamp.com/album/oyster-wives-rant-a-year-of-historic-tunes
or my second album on Bandcamp!
https://jeremykingsbury.bandcamp.com/album/pay-the-pipemaker
or my third album on Bandcamp!
https://jeremykingsbury.bandcamp.com/album/bannocks-of-barley-meal
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Finally I have some other support options here: https://www.wetootwaag.com/support
Thanks!
Listen on Itunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wetootwaags-bagpipe-and-history-podcast/id129776677
Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5QxzqrSm0pu6v8y8pLsv5j?si=QLiG0L1pT1eu7B5_FDmgGA
S4 E28: Hey Johnny Cock up thy Beaver and A brief History of Slang
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History Podcast
10/10/20 • 65 min
Tunes:
John Playford: Johnny Cock thy Beaver
O’Carolan: Cock up thy Beaver Variations
Dixon: Watty’s Away
Oswald: Johnny Cock-up thy Beaver
Robert Bremner: Scots Bonnet
O’Farrell: The Blue Bonnett
A.L. Lloyd: The Bonny Black Hare
Cover Art from David Allan’s Lead Processing at Leadhills: Weighing the Lead Bars from the 1780s showing a Blue Bonnet and a Cocked hat.
Courtesy of National Galleries Scotland: https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/99127/lead-processing-leadhills-weighing-lead-bars
1686: John Playford, Dancing Master rendition of Johnny Cock thy Beaver here:
https://www.cdss.org/elibrary/dancing-master/Dance/images/Play1138.gif
This whole database was helpful:
https://www.cdss.org/elibrary/dancing-master/Index.htm
1900: I would not have known to look here were it not for John Glen’s monumental work on early Scottish melodies, if you hadn’t noticed it is Glen’s collection that makes up much of the archival copies of these texts I rely on:
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/91349758
<1738 : O’Carolan’s Setting for Variations came likely from Donal O'Sullivan's work of tunes actually composed by Turlough O’Carolan (b.1670-d.1738) I got the transcription (and apparently also a key change) on Vince Brennan’s remarkable website, with ABC copies of all the tunes:
http://www.oldmusicproject.com/occ/tunes.html
1733: William Dixon’s Watty’s Away:
https://www.mattseattle.scot/product-page/the-master-piper-new-edition
1750ish: James Oswald’s Setting for Johnny Cock-up thy Beaver:
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/94599108
1792: Scots Musical Museum (Robert Burns Song)
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87798244
1757: Bremner’s Setting for Scots Bonnet:
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105002603
1807-1810: O’Farrell’s setting of The Blue Bonnett:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/ofarrellspc3.pdf It is tune 17 on the PDF
You can read through the fascinating discussion of Beaver and links to many newspaper articles from the early 20th century here on the English Language and Usage Stack Exchange forum: https://english.stackexchange.com/a/503590
June 1922: Missouri Newspaper: Cambridge Students Pride themselves on their whiskers
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn89066316/1922-06-26/ed-1/seq-4/#words=%22yelling%2Bbeaver%22
October 1922: Washington Newspaper: King George may need to shave
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84026749/1922-10-29/ed-1/seq-59/#words=%22out%2Bbeaver%22
December 1922 Washington Newspaper: Beaver near extinction because of the Beaver Game:
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84026749/1922-12-03/ed-1/seq-39/#words=%22out%2Bbeaver%22
“Looking For Whiskers
Bearded men find themselves unwontedly popular at Cambridge just now. They are gravely or hilariously saluted by undergraduates with cries of ‘Beaver!’ This is part of a game which the young wits of the University have devised in which pointes are scored by the player who first sights a bearded person.
From Gloucester Citizen, Gloucester, England, Wednesday May 17, 1922 Volume 47, 115
From the Evening Telegraph (Dundee, Scotland) Tuesday october 3, 1922 Day By Day
“There is absolutely no truth in the story that when a Roya...
Wetootwaag's Podcast Of Bagpipe Power Covid Season Episode 1
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History Podcast
03/20/20 • 24 min
So...It has been a while. I realized I have hours and hours of recordings of me playing since I last put up an episode and I need to get a handle on how to do a podcast again for my Dissertation research, so here's some piping!
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S 08 E 15 70,000 Downloads Listener Submitted Special
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History Podcast
07/13/24 • 71 min
Tunes:
Rod Nevin: Maids in the Morning
Benjamin Elzerman: Dance to Your Daddy
Robin Kingsbury: Song
Preston Wilde: Mazurka on Flemish Pipes in G
Robert Edwards: Añada Pa Gael, Mill Mill O
Andrew O’Sullivan: Rothiemurchus Rant, Devil in the Kitchen, Editor’s Favourite , Ruidhleadh na Coilich Dubha (The Black Grouse Reel), Cuir sa chiste mhòir mi (Put me in the big chest), Cota Mòr Ealasaid (Elizabeth’s Big Coat), High Road to Linton, Jenny Dang the Weaver
Stephen McNally: (Three David Young Triple Hornpipes) Lady Christian Montgomery’s Hornpipe, Rob Shore In Harvest, Lady Susan Montgomery’s Hornpipe
Jeremy Kingsbury: Rob Shore in Harvest, The Birth of Kisses, One Evening as I lost my Way,
Barry Shears: SSP- Gaelic reels: The Old Woman’s Dress; MacAlister’ Dirk : The Red Rooster; More Rum for the Piper; Thompson’s Dirk; the Mi’kmaq Reel; Beat the Red Coats at Culloden (Cameronian Rant) followed by : “Recorded at a house party around 2011... Robert Rennie on Guitar and Barry Shears SSP Tunes I’ll Get a soldier for a shilling, Drunken Piper, Abercairney Highlanders (old sett), The MacDonald’s March.”
James Moyer: Pottsfield C.M.
Greyson Leybourne: Suile Shuibhne (Sweeney’s Eyes)
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Check Out Rod Nevin’s Website here:
https://www.rodericknevin.com/
Also his band’s album:
https://fireintheglen.bandcamp.com/album/cutting-bracken
Preston Howard Wilde
Check out Preston Howard Wilde’s stellar album here:
https://prestonhowardwilde.bandcamp.com/album/good-natured-man
Robert Edwards:
Robert recently started a separate facebook page to show his pipemaking wares, which so far is just bellows...but I don’t think it will be that way for ever:
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61560217211185
Stephen McNally: Check out his Drummond Castle Manuscript project here:
https://bagpie.net/drummond-book-one/
Check Out Barry Shears Work here:
https://capebretonpiper.com/
For James Moyar’s Many stellar Bagpipe projects (including Droning on Podcast and the merch store Bagpipeswag.com) see here:
https://www.heritagebagpipes.com/
James also included the following Links:
Tim Cummings & Hollis Easter doing, “The Dying Californian”: https://birchenmusic.bandcamp.com/track/the-dying-californian
Over the Garden Wall: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Over_the_Garden_Wall
The Blasting Company: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blasting_Company
A great documentary about Sacred Harp Singing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHUfHNEZDPc
Greyson Leybourne:
Check out Greyson’s Instagram here:
https://www.instagram.com/brohannesjahms/
I don’t think it’s a secret that he is also the mastermind behind Irish Tune of the Week on Instagram which I’ve really enjoyed, check that out here:
https://www.instagram.com/irishtotw/
I also really enjoyed listening to some great music on Greyson’s Youtube page:
https://www.youtube.com/@greysonleybourne5029
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S 9 E 04 Celtic Melodies Mail Coach and Angus MacKay's High B Manuscript
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History Podcast
02/23/25 • 80 min
Tunes:
Anderson: The Mail Coach
Highlander: “Gu’n d’thug mi suil air an trupa ghlas.” “I cast an eye on the grey troop”, “Chaidh mi thun na traigh.” “I wen to the Ebb”, “Gur Trom, tom a tha mi” Sad, Sad am I,
Angus MacKay: Wha’ll be King but Charlie, Lilla’s A Lady, Lilla’s a Lady, Voulez vous danser Madamoiselle or the Portuguese, Paddy Rafferty’s With Variations, Fowler’s Rant, Lady Ellinor Campbell, No. XIII Pipe Reel, “Gur mise tha suncach” “Tis me that’s Happy”, No. 22 Pipe Reel “Lochiel’s Awa To France”
Hamilton: Lilla’s a Lady
Alexander MacKay: Lady Ellinor Campbell’s Reel, Miss Catherine Campbell Ardmore’s Strathspey,
Andrew O’Sullivan: Black Grouse
William Vickers: Lochail’s Real
Sources:
Cover Art:
42nd Highlander Playing a Frenchman as a Bagpipe:
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:232077/
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I read from Hugh Cheape’s Delightful Tartan Book, you should read it:
https://archive.org/details/tartanhighlandha0000chea
Sources:
1820s: Anderson’s Mail Coach from Anderson's pocket companion of the most approved Highland strathspeys, country dances, &c. for the German flute, fife, hautboy, & violin
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105006453
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1815: “A ghruagach an leadain” “Nymph with the beautiful hair.” “Gu’n d’thug mi suil air an trupa ghlas.” “I cast an eye on the grey troop”, “Chaidh mi thun na traigh.” “I wen to the Ebb.” from Celtic Melodies by Robert Purdie
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105012382
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1830s?: Wha’ll Be King but Charlie, Lilla’s a Lady, Voulez vous danser Madamoiselle or the Portuguese Dance from Angus MacKay’s Manuscript
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1846: Lilla’s a Lady from Hamilton's Universal Tune Book vol. 2 (1846, p. 68)
https://archive.org/details/bub_man_0d3e53b425fd9604ed8120afba639d35/page/n79/mode/2up?view=theater
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1822: “Gur Trom, tom a tha mi” Sad, Sad am I, “Domhnull Ban” Fair Donald.
from Celtic Melodies by a Highlander
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105012261
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1833: Lady Ellinor Campbell
from Celtic Melodies (the second one) by a Highlander
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1822: Lady Ellinor Campbell’s Reel
from A Collection of Reels, Strathspeys and Slow Tunes Arranged for the Piano Forte Chiefly composed by Alexander MacKay
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/104488057
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1815: Pipe Reel, “’S tric mi smuaineach ort.” “Oft am I thinking of thee.” from Celtic Melodies by Robert Purdie
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105012316
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1822: Miss Catherine Campbell Ardmore’s Strathspey from A Collection of Reels, Strathspeys and Slow Tunes Arranged for the Piano Forte Chiefly composed by Alexander MacKay
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/104487969
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1822: “Ge d’ tha mi gun Chrodh gun aighean” “Though I am without Cows or Querys” and “Gur mise tha suncach” “Tis me that’s Happy” from Celtic Melodies by a Highlander
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105012272
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1815: “C’ arson nach rachinn cuide riut.” “Why would I not go with you.” and Pipe Reel from Celtic Melodies by Robert Purdie
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105012371
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1776: Lochail’s Real from William Vicker’s Manuscript
http://www.farnearchive.com/farneimages/jpgs/R0306600.jpg
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S 09 E 11 Fitzmaurice’s New Collection of Irish Tunes Nos. 1-4 revisited
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History Podcast
05/17/25 • 40 min
Tunes:
Fitzmaurice: A Connaught Air, Spatter the Dew, Moggy Will you Come Again, Billy O’Rourke, I’m Asleep and Don’t Wake Me, Mount the Stage, Donald Bran, Loose the Belt, Fitzmaurice’s Trip to Rosline Castle, The Munster Lassie, The Lads of Fingall, Turn the Pig from the Tea Pot, Jigg, Mrs. Garden Campbell’s Jigg, The Tore Retreat, Kick the World Before You, Fitzmaurice’s Hornpipe,
Hamilton: Berlin Waltz
O’Farrell: Pay the Reckoning
For my earlier playthroughs which include a lot of concordances check out:
No. 1: https://www.wetootwaag.com/s5e14
No. 2: https://www.wetootwaag.com/s5e18
No. 3: https://www.wetootwaag.com/s5e30
No. 4: https://www.wetootwaag.com/s6e06
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1807: A Connaught Air, Spatter the Dew, Moggy Will you Come Again, Billy O’Rourke, I’m Asleep and Don’t Wake Me, Mount the Stage, Donald Bran, Loose the Belt, Fitzmaurice’s Trip to Rosline Castle, The Munster Lassie, The Lads of Fingall, Turn the Pig from the Tea Pot, Jigg, Mrs. Garden Campbell’s Jigg, The Tore Retreat, Kick the World Before You, Fitzmaurice’s Hornpipe, from Fitzmaurice’s New Collection of Irish Tunes nos. 1-4
https://books.google.com/books?id=vq4Fb5TyTK4C&newbks=0&pg=PP2#v=onepage&q&f=false
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For the Trip to Rosline Castle set see Bannocks of Barley Meal:
https://jeremykingsbury.bandcamp.com/track/the-berlin-waltz-fitzmaurices-trip-to-roslin-castle-pay-the-reckoning
(1853) The Berlin Waltz from Hamilton’s Universal Tune-Book
digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/94521216
(1805) Fitzmaurice’s Trip to Roslin Castle: from Fitzmaurice's New Collection of Irish Tunes. Adapted for the Piano Forte, Union Pipe, Flute,&Violin:
www.google.com/books/edition/Fitzmaurice_s_New_Collection_of_Irish_Tu/vq4Fb5TyTK4C?hl=en&gbpv=0&kptab=overview
(1806) O’Farrell’s Pay the Reckoning (Bobbing for Eels/ Jackson’s Bottle of Brandy)
digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87779834
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You can also take a minute to leave a review of the podcast if you listen on Itunes!
Tell your piping and history friends about the podcast!
Checkout my Merch Store on Bagpipeswag:
https://www.bagpipeswag.com/wetootwaag
You can also support me by Buying my Albums on Bandcamp:
https://jeremykingsbury.bandcamp.com/
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Season 9 E 03 Celtic Melodies with new article from Roddy Cannon & Keith Sanger and tunes from Rod Nevin
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History Podcast
02/08/25 • 80 min
Tunes:
“Highlander” (Maybe Alexander MacKay): Biodh mid subhach (Let us Be Merry), Falb orra, ho! (Ho away she goes) and Pipe Reel (Smith of Killiechassie), Latha dhomhsa ‘s mi siubhal garbhlaich (One day as I was traversing mountains), Cha ‘n ‘eil Cailleach agam fhein (I am Alone since my wife died), Pipe Reel (The Black Hen’s Egg), Cainntearachd (As is played on the pipe!), A Jacobite Air.
If you have some thoughts about the collection of tunes, or want to send me a recording of you playing some of the tunes get in touch at [email protected]
Sources:
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1822: “Biodh mid subhach.” Let us Be Merry from Celtic Melodies by “Highlander”
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105012239
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1822: “Falb orra, ho!” “Ho away she goes” and Pipe Reel from Celtic Melodies by by a Highlander
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105012250
See Smith of Killiechassie for No. III
https://ceolsean.net/content/Ferguss/Book02/Book02%2014.pdf
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1822: Pipe Reel, “Latha dhomhsa ‘s mi siubhal garbhlaich.” “One day as I was traversing mountains.” from Celtic Melodies by a Highlander
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105012360
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1822: “Cha ‘n ‘eil Cailleach agam fhein” “I am Alone since my wife died” from Celtic Melodies by a Highlander
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105012305
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1822: Pipe Reel (The Black Hen’s Egg) and “Buair bhi’s cach na’n cadal Samhach.” “Where the rest are sound asleep” from Celtic Melodies by a Highlander
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105012283
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1822: Cainntearachd “As is played on the pipe!” from Celtic Melodies by a Highlander
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105012338
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1822: “A Jacobite Air”, “Mo Shorridh sunntach slan leibh” “My heary lively wishes to you” from Celtic Melodies by a Highlander
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105012613
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S 08 E 29 Season Finale MacDonald Drone Regulator with Song from Adam Sanderson
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History Podcast
12/28/24 • 90 min
Tunes:
The Doors: The End
My Setting: Macrimmon Shall Never Return, John Charles’ Fireproof Pipes,
Kilberry(ish): Macrimmon Will Never Return, Corrienessan’s Salute, Lord Lovat’s Lament, The Pretty Dirk, Battle of Auldearn, Piper’s Warning To His Master,
Rainstorp: Jack Latine
Angus MacKay: The Pretty Dirk
Donald MacDonald: Reel of Tulloch, Brose and Butter, The Green Hillock (Tulloch Ghorum), The Cock Crowing (Cock of the North),
Adam Sanderson: Auntie Mary
Thank you so much to Vince Ayub for sending me the Donald MacDonald Drone Regulators and bass drone reed.
Special thanks to Adam Sanderson for sending me his singing of Auntie Mary
Relating to the Tone Regulators:
To see the Original Tone Regulators that Inspired Vince Ayub from Charlie Kron’s Website:
http://www.cekron.com/archive/mcdonald_gallery.htm
Vince is planning to eventually put the plans on the thingiverse, and also release a video about the regulators. In the Meantime he encourages everyone to watch his video about strategies to help recover stolen bagpipes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQUTR25OSAA
(Notes incomplete at this point, check back next week)
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1747: Jack Latin from Walter Rainstorp Manuscript
https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/2057949
Chanter Pitches as heard on Jack Latin Track:
A=453 on 1850s MacKay chanter
A=460 on 1910s Henderson
A=467 on 1969 Hardie
A=480 2000s Gibson
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David Fraser Indenture
https://bagpipe.news/2020/04/24/the-1743-lord-lovat-david-fraser-piping-indenture/
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