Annotation:Captain Locker

Back to Captain Locker

X:1 T:Captain Locker M:C L:1/8 R:Reel B:Stephen Grier music manuscript collection (Book 2, c. 1883, No. 46, p. 9) B: http://grier.itma.ie/book-two#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=8&z=17.4651%2C763.4053%2C3516.6742%2C1230.1919 N:Stephen Grier (c. 1824-1894) was a piper and fiddler from N:Newpark, Bohey, Gortletteragh, south Co. Leitrim. Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:C B|cGGE FEDC|Ddde fede|cBcG EGcA|GEcE CC/C/ C2:|| f|ef/g/ cg ecge|defg afdf|ef/g/ cg ecge|fdge cc/c/ c2 | ef/g/ cg ecge|defg afdf|ef/g/ de cdAc|GEcE CC/C/ C2||

CAPTAIN LOCKER. AKA and see "Captain Lockhart of the Tartar." Irish, Reel (whole time). C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). From the playing of the Reilly family of Drumreilly, County Leitrim. A transcription of the melody is in the Grier Manuscript, a c. 1883 collection of Leitrim tunes collected by fiddler and uilleann piper biography:Stephen Grier. However, was previously published in Scotland by Robert Bremner as "Captain Lockhart of the Tartar."

Additional notes

Source for notated version: -

Printed sources : -

Recorded sources: - Drumlin Records BMNCD2, Brian McNamara - "Fort of the Jewels" (2004).

Back to Captain Locker