The Bank of Ireland, The Ships are Sailing

About this film

Flute, fiddle, and melodeon, Miss McGoldrick - piano, Gennett 5477. Morrison's flute is a bit out of tune and Higgins's fiddle can scarcely be heard over the droning piano; nevertheless this is a lively pair of reels. The C in the Bank of Ireland is usually played as a C Natural but old melodeon players like Conlon didn't have this note on their one row diatonic instruments, so they either played a C sharp or modulated to a relative minor key that had a natural third note of the scale.

Directors & creators

Tom Morrison, PJ Conlon, and Tom Higgins

Subjects

Irish; Celtic; Folk; Oldtime; 78rpm; Fiddle; Flute; Accordion

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