Irish Jigs

About this film

Irish bagpipes solo, Emerald 7236 7 inch disk, NYC. Fitzpatrick was a Leitrim flute player who learned the Highland pipes as a teenager in Scotland, and took up the Irish pipes in America. He was a sucessful buisnessman who built a venue, Celtic Hall, in New York City, and also toured with various vaudeville companies. His simple lively piping, augmented by his intermittent taps and chords on his regulators, is typical of the pipers recorded in America at this time. He plays three jigs here, the Comedy Maid, Rakes of Kildare, and Miss Daly's Jig. The first he also recorded on its own on another disc. The second and third tunes are played in the key of A major, strangely enough. The first is a well known tune recorded by piper Leo Rowsome among others, in its more usual key of G. Miss Daly's is an attractive tune I've only heard played by Fitzpatrick, which works well enough in G too, although since it has a gapped scale which avoids the major 7th note Fitzpatrick gets away with playing it in A, going all the way up to C#, the highest note in the chanter's second octave. The major 7th note in the key of A is G#, played on the chanter using a key, which is difficult to do at a lively…

Directors & creators

Patrick Fitzpatrick

Subjects

Irish; Celtic; Bagpipe; Uilleann; Folk; Oldtime; 78rpm

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