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FTX-301 - DIDDLE-DADDLE

Mouth Music of Britain & Ireland

Some 60 samples from Britain and Ireland - diddling, jigging, lilting, or, as the gypsies call it, 'tuning up', the Gaelic name being 'port-a-beul' - these are vocables used, without instruments, mainly for dancing but also for dandling - or for bird-catching, using the sounds of more than 15 types of birds - or for "keening", mourning the dead. The Highland tinker pipers have their own notation language they call 'cantering' (Cantearachd) - Duncan BURKE, Maggie CHAMBERS, Kitty GALLAGHER, Mary GILLIS, Maggie McDONAGH, Henry McGREGOR, Frank McKEOWN, Kitty McLEOD, Joe MOLLOY, Mary MORRISON & Jimmy STEWART
 

HAUGHS OF CROMDALE - I LOST MY LOVE - REEL O'TULLOCH - RAKES OF KILDARE - CUCKOO'S NEST - MY BONNY WEE HIGHLAND MAN - TAK'THE BUCKLES - RORYS REID COAT & REID BREEKS - TENPENNY BIT - HILLS O GLENORCHY - TIGHIN AIR ANSLIGHE - Mrs McLEOD - FEATHERS SONG - Birds - Seals - PIBROCH - PIPER'S WARNING - BLACKBIRD - RIGHTS OF MAN - BOYS OF BLUEHILL - KEEL ROW - POLKA MAZURKA - HASTE TO THE WEDDING - LITTLE BEGGARMAN - BLACK ROGUE - PADDY RAFFERTY - LIVERPOOL HORNPIPE - DANCE TO YOUR DADDY - CUCANANDY - LOUGHANURE - KEENING - GORRA'S TUNE - OVER THE HILLS TO GOWERIE - STEP-DANCE - SQUARE EIGHT - FORESTRY KEEPER'S JIG - BACCA PIPES - FOUR-HAND REEL

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