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Sound Recording, [Northumberland]

Archive Item: LAVC/SRE/A313r

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Sound Recording, [Northumberland]

Level: Item

Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A313r

Creator(s): Harrison, Stephen

Site Location(s): Subject - Sharperton, Northumberland, England, United Kingdom( 55.329, -2.06932 )

Date(s): 12 November 1976

Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 72' 52".

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414364

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

Description

Archie Dagg, recorded at home [in Sharperton], talks about making Northumbrian small-pipes; woods used for chanters; positioning of keys; interest in carving and music; family's musical traditions; hornpipes; own compositions; learning pipe playing with Billy Pigg; Northumbrian and Highland pipes compared; having a good ear; use of bellows; what makes a good piper; piping styles; pipe-making techniques; describes his own methods, materials used and processes involved; reed making - materials, size and setting; plays a set of pipes made by himself; drone stock and chanter stock, positioning of the reed; no apprentice pipe-makers; drills and the turning of drones; playing style, differences from Irish and Scottish pipes; plays own composition ( 'Foxglove Hornpipe'); chanters.


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Copy tape. 9.5cm/sec.

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