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Sound Recording, [Northumberland]

Archive Item: LAVC/SRE/A315r

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Sound Recording, [Northumberland]

Level: Item

Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A315r

Creator(s): Harrison, Stephen

Site Location(s): Subject - Northumberland, England, United Kingdom( 55.25, -2 )

Date(s): 8 June 1976

Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 80' 38".

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414366

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

Description

Joe Hutton , [?recorded at home in Northumberland], plays the Northumbrian small-pipes [severe drop out after c. 1 min. for approx. 30 secs.]; plays two tunes, including a hornpipe; discusses his and other pipers' repertoires; learning tunes and the influence of Billy Pigg; plays ? 'Glen Allan'; learning tunes from books; tune tempi; preference for playing with accompanist; discusses tunes 'Heroes of Glencoe'and 'Plains of Boyd'; playing technique; JH's tutor George Armstrong; tune notation; plays a hornpipe by Mary Newton; plays 'Memories' by Tom Clough; plays 'Ash Grove' (variation) from a Jimmy Shand 78 record; talk of Tom Clough and the Clough family; JH's playing style; plays Irish hornpipe; differences between Irish and Northumbrian hornpipes.


[First two minutes blank]; JH plays various hornpipe and reel tunes, accompanied on the piano by [?his daughter] Doreen Hutton.


4 of 8.

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Physical and technical conditions

Copy tape. 9.5cm/sec. Intermittent speed variation during second half of side B.

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