S6 E14 Eliza Ross Manuscript and Borrowed Scottish Smallpipes
S6 E14 Eliza Ross Manuscript and borrowed Scottish Smallpipes Tunes: Patrick MacDonald:The Mermaid Song, The Fishermen’s Song for Attracting Seals, Spoigan, Joseph MacDonald’s jig, Lord Reay’s Jig, and The Goatherd; Harris Dance Eliza Ross: Dark Girl of the Sheep, Dark Eyed one of the Night, Tune 70, Jolly Alasdair choice of all the girls, Mr. McKay’s Gig, Dark Girl of the White Feet, You Silly Fool Edward Bunting: Bonny Portmore William Vickers: Strike the Bell William Dixon: Little Wee Winking Thing Michael Grey: Whitby Runaround I am mostly playing Ray Sloan Smallpipes in Bb, he kindly provided the Image for the Episode art as well, Thanks Ray! You can check out Ray’s work here, http://www.borderbagpipes.com/index.html I also play a set of Walsh Shuttle pipes, you can check them out here: https://www.johnwalshbagpipes.com/Shuttle-Pipes/ I also Play a set of Jon Swayne Border Pipe Drones with a different chanter plugged into the split stock: https://www.jonswayne.com/ And finally, I include a clip of me playing the Shepherd Musette Bb smallpipes: https://www.shepherd-bagpipes.com/html/musette.html +X+X+X+X+ Patrick MacDonald 1784: Patrick MacDonald’s Collection: The Mermaid Song, The Fishermen’s Song for Attracting Seals, Spoigan, Joseph MacDonald’s jig, Lord Reay’s Jig, and The Goatherd; Harris Dance You can look at the original here: https://books.google.com/books?id=XCvLHYWLkFcC&newbks=0&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false The Reprinted edition with the tune names in the notes can be found here: https://www.scotlandsmusic.com/Product/SM-V7M9GD/the-patrick-mcdonald-collection +X+X+X+ Eliza Ross: You can Find Eliza Ross’s Collection here: 1812: Dark Girl of the Sheep, Dark Eyed one of the Night, Tune 70, Jolly Alasdair choice of all the girls, Mr. McKay’s Gig, Dark Girl of the White Feet, You Silly Fool from Eliza Ross’s Manuscript from the Isle of Raasay in 1812: https://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/library-museum-gallery/cultural-heritage-collections/school-scottish-studies-archives/archive-pubs/eliza-ross-manuscript +X+X+X+ Edward Bunting Bonny Portmore from Bunting’s book, though he calls the Tune Have you seen my Valentine: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105814783 The setting I am playing is significantly different and I don’t have sheet music for it. I learned it by ear from various places, as well as playing a Choral setting on Uilleann pipes years ago. +X+X+X+ William Vickers 1770: Strike the Bell from William Vickers: http://www.farnearchive.com/farneimages/jpgs/R0310200.jpg +X+X+X+ William Dixon 1733: Little Wee Winking Thing from William Dixon: William Dixon’s Manuscript is available here: https://www.mattseattle.scot/product-page/the-master-piper-new-edition +X+X+X+ I’d hate to say I’m playing Michael Grey’s setting of Whitby Runaround, cause it was very much from memory, and I had previously learned it with many unique interpretations on my own from ear, but you can get the music in Neil Dickie’s first book: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14889701-first-book The Tidbit of Jimmy Blue I had in my head from my earliest pipe band days and Would be at a loss to direct you where to find it. +X+X+X+ Here are six ways you can support the show: You can support the Podcast by joining the Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/wetootwaag You can also take a minute to leave a review of the podcast if you listen on Itunes! Tell your piping and history friends about the podcast! You can also support me by Buying my First Album on Bandcamp: https://jeremykingsbury.bandcamp.com/album/oyster-wives-rant-a-year-of-historic-tunes or my second album on Bandcamp! https://jeremykingsbury.bandcamp.com/album/pay-the-pipemaker You can now buy physical CDs of my albums using this Kunaki link: https://kunaki.com/msales.asp?PublisherId=166528&pp=1 You can just send me an email at wetootwaag@gmail.com letting me know what you thought of the episode! Listener mail keeps me going! Finally I have some other support options here: https://www.wetootwaag.com/support Thanks! Listen on Itunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wetootwaags-bagpipe-and-history-podcast/id129776677 Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5QxzqrSm0pu6v8y8pLsv5j?si=QLiG0L1pT1eu7B5_FDmgGASupport Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History Podcast