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Sound Recording, Ireland

Archive Item: LAVC/SRE/A294r

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Sound Recording, Ireland

Level: Item

Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A294r

Creator(s): Taylor, Barry Roy

Site Location(s): Subject - Mullagh, County Clare, Ireland( 52.8008, -9.41194 )

Date(s): 8 July 1976

Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 91' 08".

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414344

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

Description

Junior Crehan, recorded in Mullagh (County Clare), plays a number of fiddle tunes, and in between talks about from whom he learned some of them (slow airs, dance music); also talks about a pipe player playing at local fairs; the pipe player Willy Clancey; Gaelic tune re. a boating accident (recites words of song); discusses Gaelic language and its teaching in schools; learning the fiddle as a boy, playing for dances/weddings, comments and help from Teddy Casey; playing style, tempi; comments on commercial recordings and their effect on live music making; learning tunes; playing for dances at country houses (in kitchens, c. 100 people).


Talk of Dancing Master and picking up a tune; describes movements to a set dance; discusses playing technique and musicians for country house dance sets; comments on current fiddlers.


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Physical and technical conditions

9.5cm/sec. High recording level. Some distortion. Level adjusted on AC copy.

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