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Description: | Still played today as a staple of the Northumbrian smallpipe repertoire, this is a tune with a long history (see The Flower Of Yarraw in Henry Atkinson's manuscript for an early local version). This version is very fine. It is closely related to the version in Robert Bewick's manuscript (see Bewick's Pipe Tunes, No. 1), but Bewick only has four strains to Crawhall's seven.Bewick's version stays within the 8-note plain chanter range, while three of Crawhall's strains use the higher notes available on the keyed chanter. This shows how pipers were expanding their old repertoire to take advantage of the new technology; there are many more examples of this in the Clough repertoire.An identical version to this (which is also in his published collection) was found by Matt Seattle in the John Rook ms, Cumbria, 1840 (see The Morpeth Rant, Dragonfly Music 1990, pp. 62-3), showing that, wherever the setting originated, pipers at this time were circulating the latest variations among themselves. An earlier Cumbrian sighting is the fiddle version in John Barns' ms (c. 1790), which has some points in common with Crawhall and some unique features. All of this makes one wonder how today's pipers can be content with the truncated version they play when such riches are available.This tune forms part of nineteenth century tune manuscript compiled by Joseph Crawhall and dated 1872. Joseph Crawhall was born at West House, Newcastle in 1821, the eldest son of Joseph Crawhall the industrialist. A renowned woodcut artist, he also had a great interest in music, landscape painting, and fishing. He published a small song book (A Beuk of Newcassel Sangs), and a small book of tunes for Northumbrian smallpipes which he saw chiefly as an aid to competitors. This manuscript is largely copied from the William Vickers manuscript, but also contains a few local items of great interest which either don't appear elsewhere or are different versions of tunes already known. ; Late nineteenth century tune manuscript in the hand of local illustrator and woodcut artist Joseph Crawhall. | Rights holder: | rights holder : Morpeth Chantry Bagpipe Museum | Temporal: | start=1861;end=1900; | Source: | Folk Archive Resource North East | Identifier: | farne:M0400301 | Go to resource |
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