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Current Catalogue Entry
| Tape/Side | NPS-JFC-D-029-04 | Length m | 47m | Date rec’d | Quality | ||
| Title | Billy and interview with Mrs Pigg | Contents | Not inteview. Mixed – some dubs | ||||
| Notes | |||||||
| Help? | Double check for commercial sources. Untangle strange features of Billy Pigg recordings. Verify identities. Some tunes to identify. | ||||||
| Start-End | Performer | Tunes/Titles | Instruments | Notes | by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0:0-0:08 | Off air radio, probably BBC Radio 2 | MD | |||
| 0:08-23:10 | Billy Pigg | High Level Hornpipe | Northumbrian Smallpipes (NSP) | Sounds like a taped version of Border Minstrel, complete with applause etc. If so, copyright issue. | MD |
| 23:10-27:28 | Billy Pigg | Unidentified Exhibition Hornpipe Billy Pigg’s Hornpipe Random Jig | NSP | A bit odd. It sounds like the first tune segues straight into the Exhibition, then a brief cut-out at 24m10 and we’re back into the Exhbition set from Border Minstrel | MD |
| 29:30-35:01 | ?John Doonan? and A N Other. | Madame Bonaparte | Flute Fiddle | John Doonan is a guess because of the flute and his association with the tune. Live recording as followed by applause | MD |
| 29:30-35:01 | Billy Pigg (judging by style) | Hexham Quadrille Rookland Lasses Marquis of Lorne and others. | NSP | Odd version of Marquis of Lorne seems to be merged with something else. | MD |
| 35:01-40:45 | Billy Pigg | Happy Hours Nae Guid Luck About the House Holey Halfpenny. | NSP | Border Minsterel Rcording – Copyright issue. | MD |
| 40:45-47:21end | Offair, probably BBC radio 2 to end of tape. | MD | |||
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