Annotation:Soft Mild Morning
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SOFT MILD MORNING. Irish, Air (3/4 time). B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. "Soft Mild Morning" is an air collected from the playing of harper Denis Hempson, born in 1695, a native of Craigmore, near Garvagh, in the county of Londonderry. He was an old man in his late nineties when he participated in the convocation of ancient harpers held in Belfast in 1791, but his playing was strong and intricate, on long fingernails as did the harpers of old. Collector Edward Bunting transcribed several tune from Hempson before he died at the age of 112.
