Sound Recording, [Northumberland]
Description
Archie Dagg, recorded at home [in Sharperton], talks about making Northumbrian small-pipes; how he started; equipment and techniques used; family; competition with Marjorie Bell; playing the pipes; sets of pipes made with red ebony, ivory; the bellows; plays pipe medley; Billy Pigg; playing technique; reeds; aspects of learning to play the pipes - fingering on chanter; piping competitions; playing style; learning tunes; performance venues; comments on pipe music and dancing; what makes a good piper; influence of Irish and Highland pipes; composition; transposing fiddle tunes; pipe tunes and tempo; Joe Hutton; pitch; changes in tone and tuning; retirement and making pipes - costs, making tools, techniques, materials, reed making, bellows hand sewn and sealed with wax; explains reeding; pipers Harry Clough and G. G. Armstrongalso made pipes; modern players - Joe Hutton; musical nights; musicians - Billy Pigg; tuning pipes; James Hill(composer); difficult tunes, variations/styles of tunes - reference to Tom Clough and Sean McGuire; thoughts on tune variation; own compositions; good/bad reeds; making/hardening chanter keys. 1 of 8.
Metadata
| Identifier | qkzbx6p8 |
| IRN | 414363 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/A312r |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/qkzbx6p8 |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Audiotape Sound Recordings |
| Creator(s) | Harrison, Stephen |
| Date | 6 August 1976 |
| Size and Medium | 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool, Duration: 76' 04". |