Annotation:Weaver's Slide (The)

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WEAVER’S SLIDE, THE. AKA and see “Coleman's,” “Denis Murphy's Slide (5),” “Pádraig O'Keeffe's Slide (3).” Irish, Slide (12/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Probably a reference to Sliabh Luachra region fiddler Denis Murphy’s father, Bill the Weaver (Gneeveguilla, County Kerry).

Source for notated version: set dance music recorded at Na Píobairí Uilleann, late 1980’s [Taylor].

Printed sources: Taylor (Music for the Sets: Blue Book), 1995; pp. 15 & 20.

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