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UKELELE-BANJO -- GREHAN SISTERS with Packie BYRNE (whistle): TRANSATLANTIC TRA-160

UNUSUAL INSTRUMENTS - BONES - BOTTLES - BOWLS - BULL ROARER - LEAF - ROMMEL POT - SAW - SINKS - STONES - VACUUM CLEANER -- ACOUSTIC ROOTS Colin Irwin cassette 1989 "Sonic Junk" - Elsewhere - Balinese wood gamelan: Flirting dance with reactions from audience COLUMBIA SL 210 - Malagasi B6 song with motor horn - B7 empty petrol can OCORA OCR 24 - West Java one-man gamelan bamboo tunes on frame and blows like didgeridoo with metal clapper OCR 46 - Tibet deep horns & cymbals OCR 49 - Solomon Is A7 banboo aelion organs in wind/ B: panpipe ensemble OCR 74 - Ethiopia A3 banana lyre with Christian hymn solo/ B5 bamboo flute/ B7 hocketing flute for circle dance OCR 75

VINA - Stick zither crossed with lute - 22 strings 4 melody plucked or used to provide drone used in India & Pakistan -- India: COLUMBIA SL-215

VIRGINALS -- Barry RUFFELL accomp Lea Nicholson: LEADER LER-3010 1971

WASHBOARD & WASHTUB -- Louisiana Penitentiary Spirituals: DOBELL 77-LA-12/13 - Washboard Band Tenn USA 1941: LIB OF CONGRESS L-9 - Southern USA instrum styles: NEW WORLD NW-226 - Snuff JENKINS: SAYDISC SDM- 238 - The Walter Family/ Seven Foot Dilly & his Dill Pickles rec Atlanta,Received OK USA 1930 (NEW WORLD NW-226)/ CASS- 0476-7 "Bibb County Hoedown" - Theopolis STOKES: Demo of washboard sounds & "Soldier's Joy" played by Nashville Washboard Band rec by Alan Lomax, Nashville, Tenn July 1942: ROUNDER 11661-1823-2 1999 - Skiffle Bands in Radio Prog 1957 "Sing Christmas" ROUNDER-CD-11661-1850-2 2000 - Charles BARNETT with inverted washtub rec by AL, Weems, Va 1960 : ROUNDER CD-1708 1997 "Run to Jesus for refuge"

WHISTLE: - Britain - FLUTE, FIFE & PICCOLO - OCARINA - PIPE & TABOR - WHISTLING -- Billy CONROY (talk about playing & care of tin-whistle) rec by PK, Ashington Northumb 8/6/54: RPL 20623-4/ FTX-122 - Robert GILFILLAN rec by PK, Winlaton, Durham 25/6/54: RPL 21485 - Peter PRATT rec by PK, Toab, Orkney 14/7/55: RPL 22651 tune of "Andrew Ross" & RPL 22729 (also plays fid & mel) / FTX-064 -Billy CONROY, Northumberland: FTX-121-2/ TOPIC 12-TS-219 & 223 - Bob RUNDLE (Devon): FTX-124 - KESTY (Herefordsh): FTX-240 -Mrs CROTTY Band (Devon): FTX-250 -Cornkisters (NE Scotland): FTX-360 -Sid GUTTERIDGE (Wiltsh): FTX-406 - Vin GARBUTT: LEADER LER-2081 1975 9 - Jim WOODLAND (Slow Air) Radio 2: 8/11/87: CASS-90-0550 - DEIGHTON FAMILY with bodhran: Concert Hall Radio 2: 16/3/89: CASS-90-0715 "Drowsie Maggie" - Johnny CARRUTHERS with Willie Johnstone (gtr) rec Kinross Folk Festival 1975: SPRINGTHYME SPRC 1003/ CASS-1313 1988 - Ireland --Paddy BREEN rec by PK, Camden Town, London March 1952: RTR-0600/ 078 solo album of dance tunes (2 items with Michael GORMAN flute/ fiddle incl 2 songs: "Rambling Irishman" & "The Green Hills of Ireland" -Sean MAGUIRE (Senior) (solo whistle) rec by PK, Belfast 7/7/52: RPL 18377 5 reels & 1 jig - with his son, Sean (fid): RPL 18378 3 reels & 3 jigs - (solo whistle): RPL 18379 2 hornpipes & 1 reel - with Son & 3 other fiddlers: RPL 18380 3 reels - FTX-375 (fiddle) & FTX-376 (whistle)/ 7 tunes on whistle rec John Levy 26/10/59: RPL LP 25825/ SAYDISC (CD) SDL-420 1997 - Peter O LOUGHLIN (flute) Micho RUSSELL (fife) & Jimmy WARD (whistling): RPL LP 29884 coped to Agfa" studio tape C263 - Micho RUSSELL Co Clare: RPL LP 29884/ FREE REED FRR-004/ RUSSELL Family: LEADER 251 1975 -Willie CLANCY (Co Clare): FTX-173/ rec 1960: RPL LP 29883-4/ copied to large "Agfa" studio reel labelled "C263"/ GAEL-LINN CEF 01 - Willie CLANCY & Eddie CORCORAN (Dublin): TOPIC 12-T-184 - Paddy MALONEY & Sean POTTS with bodhran: CLADDAGH OC 15 - Packie BYRNE (Co Donegal): EFDSS LP 1009 - Willie CLANCY: 8 - Irish travellers with sheet steel LYRICHORD 1967 - Finbar & Eddie FUREY: TOPIC 12-T-168 - Festy CONLAN (Co Galway) TOPIC 12-T-177 & 184 - Seamus ENNIS: FTX-079/ LEADER 2003 - Seamus TANSEY & Eddie CORCORAN: LEADER 2005 - Packie BYRNE TRANSATLANTIC TRA-160 - John DOONAN: TRANSATLANTIC TRA-170 - Tommy McCARTHY rec McColl- Seeger Tribute Concert Cecil Sharp House: Radio 2: 12/11/87: CASS-0425 "Dear Irish Boy" (Air) - Sean RYAN (with bodhran) Radio 2: 6/6/90 CASS-60-0882 - James GALWAY (whi) Concert in Manchester Radio 2: 19/6/91 CASS-60-0881 - Wales -- MABSANT (Wales): FTX-054 - Elsewhere -- Papua Port Yle Tawndi (cannibals) with policeman's whistle COLUMBIA SL-208 - Yugoslavia FTX-601-605 - Basque Txistu (3 hole): FTX-606-607 - Cent Afr pawpaw stem with hocketing singers - OCORA OCR-46 West Java B5 "djamaroti" - OCORA OCR-51 Volta B2 female ensemble & percussion OCORA OCR-43 - Ivory Coast 3 ocarinas for Mask Dance: OCORA OCR-52

 
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