Annotation:Tobin’s Resource

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X:1 T:Tobin’s Resource M:C| L:1/8 R:Hornpipe B:O'Neill's Music of Ireland. 1850 Melodies, 1903, p. 301, no. 1623 Z:François-Emmanuel de Wasseige K:D (AG)|(3FGA d>f ecAG|(3FGA d>f gecA|(3FGA d>B cdec|dcdf ecAG| (3FGA d>f ecAG|(3FGA d>f gecA|(3FGA d>B cdec|d>f (3edc d2:| |:(d>e)|f2ff f2ec|dfec d2 (Ac)|BABc dcdf|edcB ABde| f2ff fgfe|dfec d2 (Ac)|(3Bcd gf edce|d>f (3edc d2:|]



TOBIN'S RESOURCE (Tionsgnad San T-Aubin). Irish, Hornpipe. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The title refers to uilleann piper Adam Tobin, a native of Kilkenny and a member of Chicago’s Irish Music Club at the turn of the 20th century, by way of Chicago fiddler James Kennedy, who gave the tune to O’Neill. In a 1906 letter to wikipedia:Alfred_Perceval_Graves (printed in "A Few Gossipy Notes" in the Journal of the Irish Folk Song Society) in London, O'Neill explained the title:

I cannot refrain from mentioning the origin of No. 1,623 (“Tobin’s Resource”). Mr. G____ was such a crank on reeds and pipes that he rarely talked on any other subject, and whoever came to the house, even to court his daughter Nellie, was at once engaged in conversation by him, and after a few commonplace remarks regaled with a discourse on his favorite subject. This of course monopolized the visit, and rendered every effort towards a different program in vain. On one occasion Nellie had a date with her sweetheart at the theatre, if she could contrive to keep the old gentleman ignorant of her absence. She confided her difficulty to Adam Tobin, a piper living in the vicinity, and arranged for him to drop in, and of course engross the father’s attention and maintain a discussion on the tiresome subject, until her return at about eleven o’clock p.m. Everything worked splendidly, except that she did not show up at the appointed time. Tobin, however, possessed the patience and fortitude of Casabianca, playing and arguing until, from pure exhaustion, he was obliged to quit at two a.m. But what happened to Miss Gillan? Nothing much, only when she got home she sneaked up to her bed unobserved, her mind full of fear of detection and the pleasures of love. She forgot to give Adam Tobin the tip.


Additional notes
Source for notated version : - Adam Tobin [O'Neill].

Printed sources : - O'Neill (Krassen), 1976; p. 179. O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903; No. 1623, p. 301.






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