Season 9 E 03 Celtic Melodies with new article from Roddy Cannon & Keith Sanger and tunes from Rod Nevin

02/08/25 • 80 min

Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History Podcast

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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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: “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: 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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S 09 E 02 Rerun of a Conversation about Bagpipe Myths and History with Keith Sanger

Tunes:
Angus Cumming: Arndilly’s Reel, Sir Harry Innes’s Reel

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Thanks again Keith for using up a Friday evening chatting with me, you can

You can Keith’s Article: “Patronage of the price of the piper’s bag” here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XCrS_bwDBwLq4Ifq4oZrOCUGDoukfcB3/view?usp=sharing
You can also look at the rest of the issue of common stock it appeared in here:
https://lbps.net/j3site/index.php/common-stock/archive-issues/366-december-2009

Here is a paper Keith delivered to The Piobaireachd Society about eighteenth century pipemakers:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-2DgvImCgHiKGBHvEDPhbVcEmdbrxkqM/view?usp=sharing

And Here is Keith’s Article about the Bagpipe “Instructor” in Glasgow: “’Sour Plums’ and a Potage of MacLeans”
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nPov00I3GlAFi4UN5bBkk-oDONQWDlaw/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=107400950826628778567&rtpof=true&sd=true
again you should also look at the rest of this issue of Common stock:
https://lbps.net/j3site/index.php/common-stock/archive-issues/720-december-2013

Here is a link to the Piper’s Banner which serves as the thumbnail art for this episode:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ad9zMb4w-9-euwlka-I85BdrN5AiJY-s/view?usp=sharing

You can find many of Keith’s Articles here on the Wire Strung Harp website:
https://www.wirestrungharp.com/

If you use their Search bar and type in Sanger you will find PDFs of many of his articles, here is one such example, his Mapping out the Clarsach in Scotland which we talked about briefly:
https://www.google.com/url?client=internal-element-cse&cx=016966631578555743027:vdaukucctwm&q=https://www.wirestrungharp.com/harps/harpers/mapping-the-clarsach.pdf&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwjJsuqB0en1AhVzkokEHZbpAJgQFnoECAQQAQ&usg=AOvVaw3AtYgHh1KvRs2zlcQNMPbd
Music:

1780: Arndilly’s Reel: This is the 21st tune in the collection, it appears on page 8 (or image 22 of 36 on the interface linked below):
https://hms.scot/prints/copy/3/

1780: Sir Harry Innes’s Reel: The is tune 54, it appears on page 18 (or image 32 of 36 on the interface linked below): works well on Highland pipes
https://hms.scot/prints/copy/3/

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S 9 E 04 Celtic Melodies Mail Coach and Angus MacKay's High B Manuscript

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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