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Thread #94024 Message #1820512
Posted By: Les in Chorlton
28-Aug-06 - 03:04 AM
Thread Name: Hornpipe Origins
Subject: RE: Hornpipe Origins
Treewind,
The "Trumpet" Designation is of course from the opening triplets of that particular tune, and the Pugwas Theme was a recording of Northumbrian accordionist Tommy Edmondson.
I have a folk memeory, (what else?) of Alf Edwards on the melodeon, but couldn't be sure. I guess a chromatic instrument would be needed for those descinding bars that play a series of odd notes (sharps?) near the end of the B music. When melodeon players play it in sessions that seem to play a quite diferent last couple of bars because the don't have the sharps and so on.