'''PURE DROP [2], THE''' (An Braon Glan). AKA and see "[[Drogheda Lasses (1) (The)]],” "[[Drogheda Reel (The)]]," "[[Dangerous Reel (The)]]," “[[Hand Me Down the Tackle]],” “[[Hielanman's Kneebuckle (The)]],” “[[Reidy Johnson's (2)]],” "[[Road to Drogheda (The)]],” “[[Tom(m) Steele]]." Irish, Reel. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Unrelated to “[[Pure Drop (1)]]. The tune was usually recorded as "[[Tom Steele]]" or "[[Hand Me Down the Tackle]]" in the 78 RPM era. Piper Séamus Ennis was the first to use the name "Pure Drop" for the reel on his recordings, in the mid-20th century.
|f_annotation='''PURE DROP [2], THE''' (An Braon Glan). AKA and see "[[Drogheda Lasses (1) (The)]],” "[[Drogheda Reel (The)]]," "[[Dangerous Reel (The)]]," “[[Hand Me Down the Tackle]],” “[[Hielanman's Kneebuckle (The)]],” “[[Reidy Johnson's (2)]],” "[[Road to Drogheda (The)]],” “[[Tom(m) Steele]]." Irish, Reel. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Unrelated to “[[Pure Drop (1)]]. The tune was usually recorded as "[[Tom Steele]]" or "[[Hand Me Down the Tackle]]" in the 78 RPM era. Piper Séamus Ennis was the first to use the name "Pure Drop" for the reel on his recordings, in the mid-20th century.[[File:Cronin.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Edward Cronin]]
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|f_source_for_notated_version=Chicago fiddler and composer Edward Cronin, originally from County Tipperary, who was also a weaver and a machinist. O’Neill said of him: “…he would play for hours at a time such tunes as memory presented, his features while so engaged remaining as set and impassive as a sphinx…it was his open boast that he never forgot nor forgave an injury…” [O’Neill].
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|f_printed_sources=O'Neill ('''Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies'''), 1903; No. 1305, p. 245.
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|f_recorded_sources=Gael-Linn Records CEF 114, Noel Hill & Tony McMahon – “I gCnoc na Graí/In Knocknagree” (1985).
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|f_see_also_listing=Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [http://www.ibiblio.org/keefer/p09.htm#Purdr]<br>
''Source for notated version'': Chicago fiddler and composer Edward Cronin, originally from County Tipperary, who was also a weaver and a machinist. O’Neill said of him: “…he would play for hours at a time such tunes as memory presented, his features while so engaged remaining as set and impassive as a sphinx…it was his open boast that he never forgot nor forgave an injury…” [O’Neill].
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''Printed sources'': O'Neill ('''Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies'''), 1903; No. 1305, p. 245.
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''Recorded sources'': <font color=teal>Gael-linn CEFCD 114, Tony MacMahon & Noel Hill - “ "I gCnoc na Graí” ('In Knocknagree').</font>
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See also listing at:<br>
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [http://www.ibiblio.org/keefer/p09.htm#Purdr]<br>
Alan Ng's Irishtune.info [https://www.irishtune.info/tune/797/]<br>
Alan Ng's Irishtune.info [https://www.irishtune.info/tune/797/]<br>
Additional notes Source for notated version : - Chicago fiddler and composer Edward Cronin, originally from County Tipperary, who was also a weaver and a machinist. O’Neill said of him: “…he would play for hours at a time such tunes as memory presented, his features while so engaged remaining as set and impassive as a sphinx…it was his open boast that he never forgot nor forgave an injury…” [O’Neill].
Printed sources : - O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903; No. 1305, p. 245.
Recorded sources : - Gael-Linn Records CEF 114, Noel Hill & Tony McMahon – “I gCnoc na Graí/In Knocknagree” (1985).
See also listing at : Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [1]
Alan Ng's Irishtune.info [2]
