Curly Mike

 CURLY MIKE (Maidhc Catach). AKA and see "Lucky Number," "The Piper's Despair." Irish, Reel. E Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The title "Curly Mike" is from O'Neill's Waifs and Strays of Gaelic Melody. Sources for notated versions: fiddler Liz Carrol (Chicago, USA) [Breathnach]; the Rice-Walsh manyscript, a collection of music from the repertoire of Jeremiah Breen, a blind fiddler from North Kerry, notated by his student [O'Neill]. Printed sources: Breathnach (CRE III), 1985; No. 109, p. 54. O'Neill (Waifs and Strays of Gaelic Melody), 1922; No. 277. Recorded source: Shanachie 29010, Liz Carroll & Tommy Maguire - "Kiss Me Kate" (1976).

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