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|f_annotation='''THREE HALFPENCE A DAY [1]''' (Tri leat pinginne gac la). AKA and see "[[Very Poor Pay]]." Irish, Double Jig (6/8 time). A Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. At one time three halfpence a day was referred to as the common wage for an ordinary laborer or soldier. | |f_annotation='''THREE HALFPENCE A DAY [1]''' (Tri leat pinginne gac la). AKA and see "[[Very Poor Pay]]." Irish, Double Jig (6/8 time). A Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. At one time three halfpence a day was referred to as the common wage for an ordinary laborer or soldier. "[[Three Halfpence a Day (2)]]," printed by piper O'Farrell in the early 19th century is a different tune. | ||
|f_source_for_notated_version=O'Neill later in life obtained this version of the tune from the manuscripts of Timothy Downing, a gentleman farmer of Tralibane, County Cork, who taught O'Neill the rudiments of the flute when the latter was a boy during the 1860's [O'Neill/'''Irish Folk Music''', 1910]. | |f_source_for_notated_version=O'Neill later in life obtained this version of the tune from the manuscripts of Timothy Downing, a gentleman farmer of Tralibane, County Cork, who taught O'Neill the rudiments of the flute when the latter was a boy during the 1860's [O'Neill/'''Irish Folk Music''', 1910]. | ||
|f_printed_sources=O'Neill ('''Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems'''), 1907; No. 364, p. 74. | |f_printed_sources=O'Neill ('''Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems'''), 1907; No. 364, p. 74. | ||
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THREE HALFPENCE A DAY [1] (Tri leat pinginne gac la). AKA and see "Very Poor Pay." Irish, Double Jig (6/8 time). A Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. At one time three halfpence a day was referred to as the common wage for an ordinary laborer or soldier. "Three Halfpence a Day (2)," printed by piper O'Farrell in the early 19th century is a different tune.
