Annotation:Dunphy's Hornpipe
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DUNPHY'S HORNPIPE ("Crannciuil Uí Duncada" or "Cornphiopa Uí Dhonnchaidh). AKA and see "Hennessey's Hornpipe (2)," "Hornpipe (48)," "Miss Dunphy's Hornpipe." Irish, Hornpipe. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB (most versions): AA'BB (Moylan). A popular hornpipe for many decades at Irish sessions. Thomas Dunphy was an uilleann piper, a member of the Chicago Irish Music Club in the early years of the 20th century, and one of Captain Francis O'Neill's sources. O'Neill titled this nameless tune after him. Although Dunphy contributed the melody it was known to another of O'Neill's sources, Father Fielding, who had heard his mother lilting it, indicating some circulation in County Kilkenny. Philippe Varlet says there is no evidence of the tune being published prior to O'Neill, however, it is known to this day as a pipers' tune, perhaps in imitation of Dunphy. It was recorded early in the 78 RPM era by some of the great players in Irish music: James Morrison, Michael Grogan, and pipers Neilus O'Cronin, Liam Walsh, Leo Rowsome, William Andrews, and Sean Dempsey. The late New York accordion player Jim Coogan remembered the tune was a favorite with accordion player Joe Mills, and was "the hornpipe he would always play for dancers."
Slieve Luachra fiddler and teacher Pádraig O'Keeffe called the tune "Miss Dunphy's Hornpipe." See also an untitled hornpipe ("Reel (48)") in Book 3 of the large c. 1883 music manuscript collection of County Leitrim fiddler and piper biography:Stephen Grier (c. 1824-1894).