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X:1 T:Untitled T:Leitrim Piper M:6/8 L:1/8 R:Jig B:Stephen Grier music manuscript collection (1883, Book 3, No. 268) N:Grier (c. 1824-1894) was a fiddler and uilleann piper originally N:from north Longford, but who moved around 1852 to Newpark, N:Bohey, Gortletteragh, south Leitrim. K:G de/f/|gdB GAB|Aag fed|gdB cde|1 dgf g:|2 dgf g2|| g/a/|bgb afd|gfe fdd|bgb afd|gfe dde/f/| gdB GAB|Aag fed|gdB cde|dgf g2||



AIR [47]. AKA - "Leitrim Piper." AKA and see "Cader Idris," "Sweet Jenny Jones." Irish, Air (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'B. "Air [47]" is an untitled air contained in Book 3 (No. 268) of the large c. 1883 music manuscript collection of County Leitrim fiddler and piper biography:Stephen Grier. It was christened "Leitrim Piper" when printed in Breathnach & Small's Ceol Rince na hÉireann vol. 4 (1996) in a nod to their source for the tune, piper Grier. However, the tune is a cognate of the Welsh air "Cader Idris" or "Sweet Jenny Jones."


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Printed sources : - Breathnach & Small (Ceol Rince na hÉireann vol. 4), 1996; No. 4 (as "Leitrim Piper").






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