Annotation:Piper's Wedding (1) (The)

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PIPER'S WEDDING [1], THE (Bainis an Phíobaire). AKA and see "Cathcart's Favourite," "Carton's No. 2 Reel." Irish, Reel. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Source Fennell had no name for the tune; Breathnach took the title from Hardebeck’s collection (ii, p. 21). He notes that T. Magilligan, of County Fermanagh, called it “Cathcart's Favourite,” and that it appears in a Limerick manuscript as “Carton's No. 2 Reel.”

Sources for notated versions: whistle player John Fennell (Quilty, Co. Clare, Ireland) [Breathnach]; accordion player Johnny O’Leary (Sliabh Luachra region of the Cork-Kerry border) [Moylan].

Printed sources: Breathnach (CRÉ II), 1976; No. 177, p. 92. Hardebeck (A Collection of Jigs and Reels vol. 2), Dublin, 1921; p. 21. Moylan (Johnny O’Leary of Sliabh Luachra), 1994; No. 313, pp. 179-180.

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