Annotation:Pipe on the Hob (1)

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PIPE ON THE HOB [1], THE ("An Píopa Air/Ar,” “An Cluid/Iarta" or "An Píopa ar an mBaic"). AKA - "Piper of the Embers." Irish, Double Jig. A Dorian (Brody, Mallinson, Mitchell, O'Neill). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCC (Brody, Mallinson, Mulvihill, O'Neill, Taylor): AA’BBCC (Mitchell). A favorite of Irish pipers. A hob is originally a raised surface in a fireplace directly aside where the cooking fire is built, and was a place to rest a kettle or pot while it heated. In modern times a hob can also refer to a hotplate for boiling water for tea. Presumably the 'pipe on the hob' refers to a tobacco pipe left on a hob. Uilleann piper Seamus Ennis maintained the tune’s name was properly “Piper on the Hob” or “Piper of the Embers,” a nickname for the 'musical' insect the cricket. See also O'Neill's related “Hollyford Jig (The).”

Sources for notated versions: John Carey, a native of Limerick [O’Neill]; The Bothy Band (Ireland) [Brody]; piper Willie Clancy (1918-1973, Miltown Malbay, West Clare) [Mitchell]; set dance music recorded live at Na Píobairí Uilleann, mid-1980’s [Taylor].

Printed sources: Brody (Fiddler’s Fakebook), 1983; p. 218. Mallinson (100 Enduring), 1995; No. 47, p. 20. Mitchell (Dance Music of Willie Clancy), 1993; No. 5, p. 31. Mulvihill (1st Collection), 1986; No. 50, pg. 75 (learned from a recording of uilleann piper Leo Rowsome). O'Neill (Krassen), 1976; p. 18. O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903; No. 705, p. 131. O'Neill (Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems), 1907; No. 9, p. 18. Taylor (Music for the Sets: Yellow Book), 1995; p. 27. Vallely (Learn to Play the Tin Whistle with the Armagh Pipers Club, vol. 3); 1.

Recorded sources: Columbia CAL503-1, Paddy O’Brien (195?). Front Hall 018, How To Change a Flat Tire - "Traditional Music of Ireland and Shetland." Mulligan 030, The Bothy Band - "Afterhours." Mulligan 013, The Bothy Band - "Out of the Wind into the Sun” (1977). Outlet 3002, Paddy Cronin - "Kerry's Own Paddy Cronin" (1977). Shaskeen Records OS-360, Andy McGann, Felix Dolan & Joe Burke - "A Tribute ot Michael Coleman" (c. 1965). Seamus Ennis – “Return to Fingal.”

See also listing at:
Alan Ng's Irishtune.info [1]
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [2]



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