The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #40625   Message #1897140
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
30-Nov-06 - 10:28 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Unfortunate Miss Bailey
Subject: RE: Origins: Unfortunate Miss Bailey
Information contained in the old version of The Fiddler's Companion on the Ceolas site is woefully out of date; compiler Andrew Kuntz eventually grew sick of Ceolas' refusal to allow him access to it to make additions and corrections, and moved it to  http://www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/index.html; that would be several years ago now.

Please don't copy and paste entries from the old site, which contains some real howlers. Best, on the whole, to provide a link to the entry on the current site:

http://www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/ALL_AMU.htm#ALLIE_CROKER.

In this case, I think, the entry has not yet been revised (it still contains the extraordinary statement "Grogan ... was the first performer on the improved version of the Irish pipes called the uilleann or (archaically) Union pipes", for example); but providing a link rather than copying the text will help to ensure that not too many of the errors currently included (note that nothing said by Grattan Flood can be trusted unless independently verified by proper sources) need be spread any more widely than they have already been.

Mind you, that's just information relating to the tune used for Miss Bailey.