S6 E14 Eliza Ross Manuscript and Borrowed Scottish Smallpipes

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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William Vickers

1770: Strike the Bell from William Vickers:
http://www.farnearchive.com/farneimages/jpgs/R0310200.jpg

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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

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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.

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