Annotation:Tara Brooch

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TARA BROOCH, THE. AKA and see “Athlone Hornpipe (The),” "Bobby Gardiner's," "McIntyre's," "Mountain Stream (1)," "Paddy O'Brien's Hornpipe (1)," "Six O'Clock," "Western Hornpipe." Irish, Hornpipe (whole time). C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The wikipedia:Tara_Brooch has been called the most beautiful brooch ever found in Ireland, and dates from the 8th century. It was discovered in Ireland in 1850, at Bettystown, County Meath, where, as the story goes, it was washed up on the shore in a box, and found by two young brothers. The family sold it to a jeweler who shrewdly named it the Tara Brooch, thinking association with the Hill of Tara would give it added cache. It now is in the possession of the National Museum in Dublin. The brooch is crafted in silver and inlaid with precious stones.

Famed County Sligo fiddler Michael Coleman recorded the hornpipe in New York in 1927, calling it "The Western Hornpipe," and Hugh Gillespie issued it as "Mountain Stream (1)" in 1939.

Additional notes

Printed sources : - McGuire & Keegan (Irish Tunes by the 100, vol. 1), 1975; No. 86, p. 21. Taylor (Traditional Irish Music: Karen Tweed’s Irish Choice), 1994; p. 41.

Recorded sources : - Lochshore CDLDL 1215, Croab Rua - “The More that’s Said the Less the Better” (1992).

See also listing at :
Alan Ng's Irishtune.info [1]

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