Sound Recording, [Northumberland]
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recording, [Northumberland]
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A312r
Creator(s): Harrison, Stephen
Site Location(s): Subject - Sharperton, Northumberland, England, United Kingdom( 55.329, -2.06932 )
Date(s): 6 August 1976
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 76' 04".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414363
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Archie Dagg, recorded at home [in Sharperton], talks about making Northumbrian small-pipes; how he started; equipment and techniques used; family; competition with Marjorie Bell; playing the pipes; sets of pipes made with red ebony, ivory; the bellows; plays pipe medley; Billy Pigg; playing technique; reeds; aspects of learning to play the pipes - fingering on chanter; piping competitions; playing style; learning tunes; performance venues; comments on pipe music and dancing; what makes a good piper; influence of Irish and Highland pipes; composition; transposing fiddle tunes; pipe tunes and tempo; Joe Hutton; pitch; changes in tone and tuning; retirement and making pipes - costs, making tools, techniques, materials, reed making, bellows hand sewn and sealed with wax; explains reeding; pipers Harry Clough and G. G. Armstrongalso made pipes; modern players - Joe Hutton; musical nights; musicians - Billy Pigg; tuning pipes; James Hill(composer); difficult tunes, variations/styles of tunes -
reference to Tom Clough and Sean McGuire; thoughts on tune variation; own compositions; good/bad reeds; making/hardening chanter keys.
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