Beeswax Sheepskin/Sportsman's Hornpipe/Bacca Pipes Jig

These are three hornpipes which I am trying out as a set. The first is what I believe is a Quebecois tune, which I got from the playing of La Bottine Souriante and Breabach. I've slowed it right down and swung it. The second is the Sportsman's Hornpipe, which I got from Spiers and Boden and play with Gog Magog Molly. The last is a version of the Bacca Pipes Jig. It is based loosely on Headington, in that I've nabbed the A major section from there, but the minor sections either side are the standard session version, embellished with things that I thought were a good idea at the time. It is a good tune to practice right hand harmony on I've found. As a set it doesn't work as well as I'd hoped though, as the transition from the first to the second tune was a tad ropey.

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Music

Tags:

• Beeswax
• Sheepskin
• Sheepskins
• Sportsman's Hornpipe
• Bacca Pipes
• CUCB
• Silent Cannonfire

[ukebert]

@eyeball226 The last tune is indeed a version of Greensleeves. In the morris world it is known as Bacca Pipes or Baccapipes, due to it being the tune played for the jig of that name, where dancers dance round two long clay pipes laid on the ground, the idea being that if they tread on one then it would break. Thanks for your comments :)

[eyeball226]

Hmmm... I know the last one as Greensleeves, interesting. I can't believe I'm only the second like on this video.