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X:1 T:Cloak that got Its combing, The T:Fallainn a Fuair a Chiorrbhadh M:3/4 L:1/8 S:Hugh O'Beirne, piper, 1846 Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim B:Joyce - Old Irish Folk Music and Songs (1909, No. 634) Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:Gdor g2|f2 dc (3def|g2g2 ag|f2 defg|a2g2 ge|f2 e2 dc| d2g2 fd|c2 AG F2|G2 GABG|F2G2A2|f2 dfed| c2 AG F2|G2 GBAG|A2g2e2|f2 dfec|A2G2G2|G4||

CLOAK THAT GOT ITS COMBING, THE (Fallainn a fuair a chiorrbhadh). Irish, Air (3/4 time). G Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part.

Additional notes
Source for notated version : - Hugh O'Beirne, a professional piper^[1] from Ballinamore, south County Leitrim, collected in 1846 by William Forde (c.1795–1850, County Cork).

Printed sources : - Joyce (Old Irish Folk Music and Songs), 1909; No. 634, pp. 322-323.

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↑ P.W. Joyce concluded that O'Beirne had been a fiddler in his Old Irish Folk Music and Songs (1909, p. 296). However, William Forde, the only collector who had direct contact with O'Beirne, wrote in a letter to John Windele of Cork, dated Sept. 21, 1846, that he had obtained over 150 airs from a piper, Huge Beirne. Forde was seeking to supplement his collection with music from Connaught and the north, and was glad to make the musician's acquaintance, staying on in Ballinamore longer than he originally planned. He also found O'Beirne in poor health in the time of Great Famine, writing "Stirabout and bad potatoes were working fatally on a sinking frame," and aided the piper by improving his diet ("but a mutton chop twice a day has changed Hugh's face wonderfully").

[1] P.W. Joyce concluded that O'Beirne had been a fiddler in his Old Irish Folk Music and Songs (1909, p. 296). However, William Forde, the only collector who had direct contact with O'Beirne, wrote in a letter to John Windele of Cork, dated Sept. 21, 1846, that he had obtained over 150 airs from a piper, Huge Beirne. Forde was seeking to supplement his collection with music from Connaught and the north, and was glad to make the musician's acquaintance, staying on in Ballinamore longer than he originally planned. He also found O'Beirne in poor health in the time of Great Famine, writing "Stirabout and bad potatoes were working fatally on a sinking frame," and aided the piper by improving his diet ("but a mutton chop twice a day has changed Hugh's face wonderfully").

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