Annotation:Callaghan's Hornpipe (1)

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CALLAGHAN'S (HORNPIPE) (Cornphiopa Uí Cheallachain). AKA - "O'Callaghan's Hornpipe." Irish, Hornpipe. Ireland, Sliabh Luachra region of the Cork-Kerry border. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB (Miller & Perron): AA'BB' (most versions). Named for the uncle of influential County Kerry fiddler and teacher Pádraig O'Keeffe, Cal O'Callaghan.

Source for notated version: accordion player Johnny O'Leary (Sliabh Luarchra region), recorded in recital at Na Píobairí Uilleann, February, 1981 [Moylan]; fiddler Denis Murphy, 1966 (Co. Kerry, Ireland) [Breathnach]; fiddler Seán Keane (Dublin), with the Chieftains [Miller & Perron].

Printed sources: Breathnach (CRÉ II), 1976; No. 308, p. 157. Bulmer & Sharpley (Music from Ireland), vol. 1, 1974; No. 73. Ceol, vol. 2, No. 4. Cranitch (Irish Fiddle Book), 1996; p. 109. Miller & Perron (Irish Traditional Fiddle Music, vol. 1), 1977; No. 14 (appears as untitled hornpipe). Miller & Perron (Irish Traditional Fiddle Music), 2nd Edition, 2006; p. 120. Moylan (Johnny O'Leary), 1994; No. 61, p. 35. Vallely (Play Tin Whistle with the Armagh Pipers Club, vol. 2), 19.

Recorded sources: Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Éireann CL13, "Tommy Peoples" (1976). Globestyle Irish CDORBD 085, Padraig O'Keeffe - "The Rushy Mountain" (1994. Reissue of Topic recordings). Shanachie 79022, "Chieftains #2." Topic 12T309, Padraig O'Keefe, Denis Murphy & Julia Clifford - "Kerry Fiddles" (1977)

See also listings at:
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources []
Alan Ng's Irishtune.info []