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|f_annotation='''ASHPLANT [1].''' AKA and see "[[Maide Fuinnseoige (An)]]." Irish, Reel. E Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Breathnach, Flaherty, McNulty): AABB (Carlin, Miller & Perron). An ashplant was the name for a common implement among farmers and drovers of cattle in Ireland, made from a sapling of an ash tree. The root ball would be trimmed to a knob which fit easily in the hand, and the length trimmed into a switch. It would be applied to the hide of the buttocks of an animal as a means of motivating and steering them. The implement has been known to be employed in brawls on fair days, grasped at the opposite end with the knob then the business end! County Cavan/Philadelphia fiddler Ed Reavy said the ash plant "made a good stick and a good tune, too." | |||
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See also the related "[[Tom Dowd's Favorite]]." | |||
|f_source_for_notated_version=piper Pat Brophy (Ireland) [Breathnach]; flute player Noel Tansey (b. 1940, Cuilmore, Co. Sligo, Ireland) [Flaherty]; a 1969 recording of Galway fiddler Máirtín Byrnes [Miller & Perron]. | |||
|f_printed_sources=Breathnach ('''Cool Rince na hÉireann vol. I'''), 1963; No. 116, p. 48. Carlin ('''Master Collection'''), 1984; No. 211, p. 124. Flaherty ('''Trip to Sligo'''), 1990; p. 94. McNulty ('''Dance Music of Ireland'''), 1965; p. 5. Miller & Perron ('''Traditional Irish Fiddle Music vol. 1'''), 1977; No. 63. Miller & Perron ('''Irish Traditional Fiddle Music'''), 2nd Edition, 2006; p. 47. | |||
|f_recorded_sources=Gael-Linn CEF 114, Noel Hill & Tony MacMahon - "I gCnoc na Graí." JAR Productions JAR0217, John Whelan - "From the Heart" (2002). Leader LEACD 2004, "Martin Byrnes" (1969). Topic TSCD 602, The Belhavel Trio - "Irish Dance Music" (1995. A reissue of the 1938 original). Topic TSDL1502, Bernard O'Sullivan & Tommy McMahon - "Clare Concertinas" (originally recorded 1975). | |||
|f_see_also_listing=Alan Ng's Irishtune.info [https://www.irishtune.info/tune/89/]<br> | |||
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ASHPLANT [1]. AKA and see "Maide Fuinnseoige (An)." Irish, Reel. E Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Breathnach, Flaherty, McNulty): AABB (Carlin, Miller & Perron). An ashplant was the name for a common implement among farmers and drovers of cattle in Ireland, made from a sapling of an ash tree. The root ball would be trimmed to a knob which fit easily in the hand, and the length trimmed into a switch. It would be applied to the hide of the buttocks of an animal as a means of motivating and steering them. The implement has been known to be employed in brawls on fair days, grasped at the opposite end with the knob then the business end! County Cavan/Philadelphia fiddler Ed Reavy said the ash plant "made a good stick and a good tune, too."
See also the related "Tom Dowd's Favorite."
