Annotation:Pure Drop (2) (The)

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PURE DROP [2], THE (An Braon Glan). AKA and see "Drogheda Lasses (1) (The),” "Drogheda Reel (The)," "Dangerous Reel (The)," “Hand Me Down the Tackle,” “Hielanman's Kneebuckle (The),” “Reidy Johnson's (2),” "Road to Drogheda (The),” “Tom(m) Steele." Irish, Reel. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Unrelated to “Pure Drop” [1]. Source for notated version: Chicago fiddler and composer Edward Cronin, originally from County Tipperary, who was also a weaver and a machinist. O’Neill said of him: “…he would play for housrs at a time such tunes as memory presented, his features while so engaged remaining as set and impassive as a sphinx…it was his open boast that he never forgot nor forgave an injury…” [O’Neill]. O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903; No. 1305, p. 245. Gael﷓linn CEFCD 114, Tony MacMahon & Noel Hill - “ "I gCnoc na Graí” ('In Knocknagree').

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