Hetty Pegler's Tump - the tunes

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Irish
Irish tunes Jigs - "Maids of Ballinacarty", "Hartigan's fancy", and "Sports of Multfarnan" - MP3 2.97Mb A
Reels - "The Wise Maid" and "Primrose Lass" - MP3 2.36Mb A
Hornpipes - "Delahunty's" and "Off to California" - MP3 2.75Mb A
Polkas - "Sam Sullivan's", Anon, amd "Church Street" - MP3 2.99 Mb A
Polkas - "Fish and taters" set - MP3 2.32Mb D
Polkas - "Ballyoran" set - MP3 3.22Mb D
Slides - "Dennis Murphy's", "John Kelly's", and "The Weaver" - MP3 2.71Mb A
Slip jigs - "Wigsborough hunt", "The Irish jig", and "Jack in the green" - MP3 2.41Mb B
"Gaftaí Baile Buí" (Gates of the yellow town) an air from Donegal - MP3 4Mb B
"Kilnamona set" ending with "Spoot O' Skerry" (Ian Burns) - MP3 4.12Mb D
Scottish
Scottish tunes Reels - "Far from home", "Bottom of the punchbowl", and "Flowers of Edinburgh" - MP3 3.38Mb A
Set dance - three versions of the jig "Shaalds of Foula" - MP3 3Mb A
Jigs - "Out over the ocean", "I'm a young man", and "Over the water to Charlie" - MP3 3.11Mb A
Shetland reels - "Jack broke the prison door", "Donald blue", and "Villafjord" - MP3 2.29Mb A
English
English tines Jig - "Weymouth quickstep" - MP3 3Mb C
Jigs - "The ball", "Pendean dance", and "A jig ashling" - MP3 3.1Mb A
Jigs - "Billy Young's" and "Dancing dustman" - MP3 3.19Mb A
Polkas - "Lincolnshire polka" and "Ferry boat" - MP3 2.34Mb A
Waltz - "Wenlock edge" - MP3 2.2 Mb A
Tony playing 4 marches "Barren Rock"; "Tie your bonnets",
 "Scan Tester's", and "Old Joe, the boat is going over" - MP3 4.2Mb
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Playford - "Dick's maggot" - MP3 1.71Mb A
Playford - "Jack's maggot" - MP3 1.68Mb A
Playford - "Hole in the wall" - MP3 1.49Mb A
Playford - "Merry, merry milk maids" - MP3 2.24Mb A
American
American tunes Reels - "Kitchen floor", and "Tabour" - MP3 2.2Mb B
Reels - "Sugar in the gourd", "Fire on the mountain", and "Cider swamp" - MP3 2.7Mb B
Jigs - "All around the town", "St Lawrence jig", and "Carry me back to Virginia" - MP3 3.2Mb B
French
French tunes Bourrees - "Qu’il est doux de ne rien faire", and another mazurka - MP3 2.1Mb B
Canadian
Canadian tunes Jigs - "lemonville", and "Danse de chez-nous" (French Canadian) - MP3 2.4Mb B
Breton
Breton tunes "An Dro" (Breton) - 2 versions - MP3 2.5Mb B
Notes -
A) Tony (accordion), Caroline (recorder), and Hamish (guitar). Recorded in Hamish's lounge 14-Oct-2002. Mono recordings from the amp straight into the computer's line-in
B) Tony (accordion), Caroline (recorder), Terry Brenchley  (fiddle), and Hamish (guitar). Recorded in Hamish's dining room 22-Nov-2003. Stereo. Recorded through an INCA 88 8-input sound card, using Sonar 3 to capture and later mix the individual tracks.
C) Tony (accordion), Naomi (oboe), and Hamish (guitar). Recorded in Hamish's lounge Dec-1999. Stereo recording from the amp straight into the computer's line-in
D) As B), but recorded March 2004, no Terry, but Hamish also on bodhrán

HPT - the video Download the video of us playing the American reel "Cripple Creek" at an American theme evening held at Southam Tithe Barn. Featuring Tony (accordion), Peter (fiddle), Hamish (guitar), with Martin calling. This is an ASF file encoded in MPEG4. Low quality video and sound, but remarkably compact at 1.04Mb for 85 seconds. You will need Windows Media Player to play this.

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