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X:1 T:Tom Steele [1] M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel B:O'Neill's Music of Ireland. 1850 Melodies, 1903, p. 239, no. 1271 Z:François-Emmanuel de Wasseige K:D d>D (3DDD F>A (3ABc|dfaf gfec|d>D (3DDD FA{e}dc|BGEF GABc| d>D (3DDD F>A (3ABc|dfaf (3gag bg|afge fdec|BGEF GABc|| d2(fd) adfd|(3ded af gfec|d2(fd) adfd|BGEF GABc| d2(fd) adfd|(3ded af g2(fg)|(3agf (3gfe fdec|BGEF GABc|]

TOM(M) STEELE ("Tomas Stiul" or "Tomas Ua Cruaid"). AKA and see "[[[Cill Beathach]]," “Drogheda Lasses,” “Hand Me Down the Tackle,” "Hielanman's Kneebuckle (The)," "Laurel Groves (The)," “Pure Drop (2) (The),” "Reidy Johnson's (2)." Irish, Reel (cut time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (O'Neill/1850 & 1001): AAB (Miller & Perron/2006): AABB' (Cranford/Holland, Miller & Perron/1977): AA'BB' (O'Neill/Krassen). Tom Steele was a colleague of the Irish patriot Daniel O'Connell. The title appears in a list of tunes in his repertoire brought by Philip Goodman, the last professional and traditional piper in Farney, Louth, to the Feis Ceoil in Belfast in 1898 (Breathnach, 1997). The tune was recorded by the Flanagan Brothers in 1928, and by Sligo fiddler Michael Coleman in 1921 (albeit under the title “Reidy Johnson's (2),” the name of a female Irish-American accordion player). Dublin piper Tommy Reck recorded the melody as a pipe solo in his first commercial release, for the Copley label, paired with “Scholar (The)” and “Salamanca (The).” Pipers tend to call the tune “Hand Me Down the Tackle.”

Additional notes
Source for notated version : - fiddler Séamus & Manus McGuire (Co. Sligo) [Miller & Perron].

Printed sources : - Carlin (Master Collection of Dance Music for the Violin), 1984; No. 214, p. 126. Cranford (Jerry Holland: The Second Collection), 2000; No. 106, p. 41. Miller & Perron (Irish Traditional Fiddle Music), 1977; vol. 1, No. 2. Miller & Perron (Irish Traditional Fiddle Music), 2nd Edition, 2006; p. 107. O'Neill (Krassen), 1976; p. 109. O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903; No. 1271, p. 239. O'Neill (Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems), 1907; No. 539, p. 100.

Recorded sources : - Copley 9-191, Tommy Reck. Outlet 3002, Paddy Cronin "Kerry's Own Paddy Cronin" (1977). Rounder Records 7057, Jerry Holland – “Parlor Music” (2005). Smithsonian Folkways SFW CD 40481, Brian Conway – “First Through the Gate” (2002).

See also listing at :
Alan Snyder’s Cape Breton Fiddle Recording Index []
Jane Keefer’s Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources []
Alan Ng’s Irishtune.info [1]

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