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'''LEDDY FROM CAVAN.''' Irish, Reel. D Major/Mixolydian/Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB'. Composed by Philadelphia, Pa./County Cavan fiddler Ed Reavy (1898-1988) in honor of his friend John Leddy who, like Reavy, was born in County Cavan. Leddy and Reavy worked in the same plumbing business for many years, according to Reavy's son Joseph.

Interviewed by musician and folklorist Mick Moloney in 1975, Reavy explained:

''Yeah…well Leddy was a very good friend of mine…a wonderful gentleman…''

''he was in the same business as I am…plumbing and heating contractors for''

''…oh…a number of years. He was a wonderful Irish man and a great lover of''

''Music too. He played a bit himself but not too much. He wanted to have a son''

''that ws going to be a great player…which he would have been. He took music''

''lessons off a professional teacher here for about a year. So then he used to''

''come down to my place every Sunday for the traditional music. Well if I do''

''say it myself that was the one boy that I really taught the Irish traditional''

''music to that I could feel proud of. He was really almost at the top of the''

''ladder as a great player…then he got married. He married a German girl…''

''a wonderful wife, but they don’t have anything in common as far as traditional''

''music is concerned and he dropped it like a hot potato as we used to say…''

''dropped the music and stopped playing entirely. Now maybe it was the fault''

''of the father driving him into it, I don’t know. You see sometimes if you force''

''something on a person…if you happened to be my son and I want you to be a''

''doctor and you don’t want to be a doctor you want to be a carpenter or you''

''want to be an electrician or something else…well you see it’s the wrong thing''

''to do. I think it’s always better to let the peron…the child or whoever it is''

''decide for themselves in that matter…I think they would be more successful.''

''Mick: Leddy from Cavan…what happened to him eventually?''

''Ed: He died very suddenly.''

''Mick: When did you write the tune about him…before or after he died?''

''Ed: After he died. ''

<ref>Mick Moloney, “Medicine for Life: A study of a Folk Composer and His Music”, ’’’Keystone folklore: The Journal of the Pennsylvania Folklore Society’’’, vol. 20, Winter-Spring 1975, No. 1, p. 25. </ref>

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''Printed sources'': Reavy ('''The Collected Compositions of Ed Reavy'''), No. 6, p. 6.

''Printed sources'' : - Reavy ('''The Collected Compositions of Ed Reavy'''), No. 6, p. 6.

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 '''LEDDY FROM CAVAN.''' Irish, Reel. D Major/Mixolydian/Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB'. Composed by Philadelphia, Pa./County Cavan fiddler Ed Reavy (1898-1988) in honor of his friend John Leddy who, like Reavy, was born in County Cavan. Leddy and Reavy worked in the same plumbing business for many years, according to Reavy's son Joseph.
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+Interviewed by musician and folklorist Mick Moloney in 1975, Reavy explained:
+<blockquote>
+''Yeah…well Leddy was a very good friend of mine…a wonderful gentleman…''
+''he was in the same business as I am…plumbing and heating contractors for''
+''…oh…a number of years.  He was a wonderful Irish man and a great lover of''
+''Music too. He played a bit himself but not too much. He wanted to have a son''
+''that ws going to be a great player…which he would have been.  He took music''
+''lessons off a professional teacher here for about a year. So then he used to''
+''come down to my place every Sunday for the traditional music.  Well if I do''
+''say it myself that was the one boy that I really taught the Irish traditional''
+''music to that I could feel proud of.  He was really almost at the top of the''
+''ladder as a great player…then he got married.  He married a German girl…''
+''a wonderful wife, but they don’t have anything in common as far as traditional''
+''music is concerned and he dropped it like a hot potato as we used to say…''
+''dropped the music and stopped playing entirely. Now maybe it was the fault''
+''of the father driving him into it, I don’t know. You see sometimes if you force''
+''something on a person…if you happened to be my son and I want you to be a''
+''doctor and you don’t want to be a doctor you want to be a carpenter or you''
+''want to be an electrician or something else…well you see it’s the wrong thing''
+''to do.  I think it’s always better to let the peron…the child or whoever it is''
+''decide for themselves in that matter…I think they would be more successful.''
+<br>
+<br>
+''Mick: Leddy from Cavan…what happened to him eventually?''
+<br>
+<br>
+''Ed:  He died very suddenly.''
+<br>
+<br>
+''Mick:  When did you write the tune about him…before or after he died?''
+<br>
+<br>
+''Ed:  After he died. ''
+ <ref>Mick Moloney, “Medicine for Life: A study of a Folk Composer and His Music”, ’’’Keystone folklore: The Journal of the Pennsylvania Folklore Society’’’, vol. 20, Winter-Spring 1975, No. 1, p. 25.  </ref>
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-''Printed sources'': Reavy ('''The Collected Compositions of Ed Reavy'''), No. 6, p. 6.
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