Compilations of Northumbrian Pipes

TSCD529 THE WIND IN THE REEDS
TSCD487 THE NORTHUMBRIAN SMALL PIPES

The Northumbrian Small Pipes have existed since at least the 17th Century, if not earlier - an instrument unique to the North East of England with its own special sound. This record traces the history of the instrument's music.

The early tunes had to fit within the limited confines of the first instruments' range, but, necessity being the mother of invention, this produced tunes that may have been limited in tonal range but were certainly not at all limited in melodic invention. In time the instrument developed, enabling more complex tunes with greater range to pass into the tradition.

This recording features the whole range of sound and repertoire from solos to full band arrangements, from some of the finest players.

THE WIND IN THE REEDS VARIOUS ARTISTS TSCD529

1 All Night I Lay With Jockey / The Peacock Followed The Hen
2 Jacky Layton
3 Green Breckons /Bob and Joan / Kiss Her Under The Coverlet
4 Cuckold Came Out Of The Amrey

5 Cuddy Claued Her
6 Holme's Fancy / Stagshau Bank Fair / Lasses Pass The Brandy
7 Cut and Dry Dolly
8 Over The Border
9 Pheasant's Dance / Rusty Gully
10 Keelman Over the Land
11 I Saw My Love Come Passing By Me
12 The Barrington Hornpipe / The Glen Aln
13 The Wild Hills O'Wannies / The Swallow's Tail
14 Jim Hall's Fancy
15 Breamish / Random Jig
16 Archie's Fancy / Little Hennie
17 The Lea Rigges
18 Sir Sidney Smith's March
19 Mrs Elder
20 Nae Gud Luck Aboot The Hoose
21 Oh Dear What Can The Matter Be
22 The East Neuk of Fife
23 The Locomotive / The South Shore

Alistair Anderson English concertina, small pipes
Jim Hallsmall pipes, piano
Anthony Robb small pipes
Carole Robb small pipes, flute
Colin Ross small pipes, fiddle, viola

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The Northumbrian pipes are a uniquely versatile and fascinating English instrument. In this unrivalled compilation the piper Colin Ross, of the High Level Ranters and the Cut & Dry Band, assembles a sound-library of piping styles and Northeastern melodies by both current players and past masters such as Tom Clough, Joe Hutton and incomparable Billy Pigg.

THE NORTHUMBRIAN SMALL PIPES VARIOUS ARTISTS TSCD487

1 Tom Clough : Keel Row
2 Diana Blackett-Ord : Westering Home
3 John Hepple with George Hepple : Whittingham Green Lane / Ward's Brae
4 Billy Pigg : Wild Hills o'Wannie
5 The High Level Ranters : King's Hall / John of Carrick
6 Billy Pigg : Gypsy's Lullaby / The Hawk / Memories / Coates Hall
7 George Atkinson : Oh Dear, What Can the Matter Be?
8 Joe Hutton with John Armstrong : Sir Sidney Smith's March
9 Joe Hutton : Lovat Scouts / Roxburgh Castle / Bonny North Tyne / Alston
Flower Show
10 The Cut & Dry Band : Sunderland Lasses / Lads of Alnwick
11 The High Level Ranters : Fenwick of Bywell
12 Joe Hutton : Barrington Hornpipe / Rowley Burn
13 The High Level Ranters : Proudlock's Hornpipe / Hesleyside Reel
14 Tom Clough : Ho'ley Ha'Penny / Elsie Marley
15 The Cut & Dry Band : John Fenwick's the Flower Among Them
16 Colin Caisley & Forster Charlton : Salmon Tails Up the Water / The Herd
on the Hill / Sweet Hesleyside
17 the High Level Ranters : Coilsfield House / Thom's March
18 Billy Pigg : Skye Crofters / The Swallow's Tail
19 The Cut & Dry Band : My Laddie Sits O'er Late Up / Shew's the Way to
Wallington / Drops of Brandy
20 The High Level Ranters : The Surprise
21 The Cut & Dry Band : Bonny Woodside / Coffee Bridge
22 The Cut & Dry Band : Dr Whittaker's Hornpipe / Nancy
23 The High Level Ranters : Hexham Quadrille (Billy's Jig) / Kielder Fells

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