Annotation:Piper's Wedding (1) (The)

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X:1 T:Reel M:C L:1/8 R:Reel N:A version of "Piper's Wedding [1]." S:James Goodman (1828─1896) music manuscript collection, S:vol. 3, p. 141. Mid-19th century, County Cork Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:F F2 cF dFcF|F2 cF AGFD|F2 cF dFce|fdcA GAFD:| fgaf gfga|fgag fdde|fgaf gfga|fdcA GAFD| fgaf gfga|fgag fddf|afge fdcA|dfcA GAFD||

PIPER'S WEDDING [1], THE (Bainis an Phíobaire). AKA and see "Cathcart's Favourite," "Carton's Reel (2), "Galway Rambler (The)." Irish, Reel. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. A variant of the large "Galway Rambler (The)" tune family. Source Fennell had no name for the tune and Brendan Breathnach took the title from Hardebeck’s collection (ii, p. 21). He notes that T. Magilligan, of County Fermanagh, called it “Cathcart's Favourite,” and that it appears in a Limerick manuscript as “Carton's No. 2 Reel.”

Additional notes
Source for notated version : - whistle player John Fennell (Quilty, Co. Clare, Ireland) [Breathnach]; accordion player Johnny O’Leary (Sliabh Luachra region of the Cork-Kerry border) [Moylan].

Printed sources : - Breathnach (Ceol Rince na hÉireann vol. II), 1976; No. 177, p. 92. Hardebeck (A Collection of Jigs and Reels vol. 2), Dublin, 1921; p. 21. Moylan (Johnny O’Leary of Sliabh Luachra), 1994; No. 313, pp. 179-180.

See also listing at :
Alan Ng's Irishtune.info [1]

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