Annotation:Old Man Quinn
X:1
T:Sailor's Hornpipe [8]
T:Old Man Quinn
T:Logier's Hornpipe
M:4/4
L:1/8
R:Hornpipe
B:O'Flannagan - The Hibernia Collection (Boston, 1860, p. 15)
Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion
K:F
cB|AFAc fagf|ebge cBAG|Acfa bgaf|e2c2 cdcB|
AFAc fagf|ebge cBAG|AfdB AcGc|A2F2F2:|
|:cf|afcf c'agf|gceg bgfe|fedc Bagf|e2c2 cdcB|
AFAc fagf|edcB AGFE|DfdB AcGc|A2F2F2:|
|:cB|ABGA FAcf|efde cega|afga bgaf|e2c2c2 fe|
dfdf cfBf|dfdf cfBf|AfdB AcGc|A2F2F2:|]
OLD MAN QUINN ("An Swanduine Ua Cuinn" or "Ua Cuinn an Seanduine"). AKA and see "Logier's Hornpipe," "Miss Lacy's," "Sailor's Hornpipe (8)," "Savin Hill." Irish, Hornpipe. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCC. The elderly James Quinn (1805-1890), originally from Cloone, County Leitrim, was source Sgt. James Early's relative and his tutor on the uilleann pipes. Francis O'Neill (1924) describes him as "an old time Chicago piper," familiarly known as Old Man Quinn, without whom "no (Irish music) gathering would be complete" while he lived. Quinn a skilled performer in the Connaught style of closed staccato piping, having originally been tutored in Leitrim by Gusty Nicols, his landlord and a gentleman piper of repute (see note for "annotation:Gusty's Frolics"). The young Quinn became skilled enough to acquire a position as a resident piper to a Cavan landowner in the 1820's with whom he stayed for 10 years (remunerated at the rate of 50£ per annum, plus the use of a horse, a handsome sum for the time). By 1840 Quinn had joined the Irish Diaspora and emigrated to New York before making his way to Chicago, where he set up a successful livery business. He was the first piper resident in Chicago, writes O'Neill, who regretted not noting more tunes from the old man's repertoire before he died. The tune appears in Stephen Greir's (1824-1894 of Abbeylare, Granard, County Longford, who lived in Bohey, Gortletteragh, County Leitrim) manuscript collection compiled in 1883.
