Great whistle tune from Scotland

[kenny]

I mentioned elsewhere that I'm co-hosting a folk / traditional radio programme here in Aberdeen. A few weeks back we were sent a 5-track "promo" CD by a young Scottish duo - Eddie Seaman [ Highland pipes and whistles ] and Luc McNally [ guitar and vocals ]. All of the tracks are good, but there is one particularly outstanding tune on the CD which I've never come across before. It's an air / march kind of tune, composed by the late Pipe Major John D. Burgess in memory of his time with the "Invergordon Distillery Pipe Band". It's called [ unsurprisingly ] "Invergordon Distillery", and I've just come across Eddie playing it on a "Youtube" video.

I'm not sure the link will work - here it is anyway,

http://youtu.be/ucpJy20_nbk

, if not use the "Youtube" "Search" function to find "Eddie Seaman - Invergordon Distillery".

A class piece of music, sometimes simple is best - see what you think.

[kenny]

Link seems to work OK.

[Nanohedron]

The link works for me.

A nice little tune, and very catchy. Perhaps due to being on whistle the tune is very sweet, but a fiddler could give it a rawer, more swaggering treatment and I imagine it would still sound "right".

[dunnp]

Some information on John D Burghess

http://boxandfiddlearchive.weebly.com/j ... rgess.html

[weedie]

Really nice Tune Kenny.. I'd love to be sitting next to you and listen to you playing it .
What a perfect way to present these beautiful tunes.. just Whistle and Guitar.. (even if the Musicians were surrounded by Marshall amps ...
May I be permitted a wee thread hijack ? Scottish in content..
Kenny,I've just got myself a new Motorcycle ( well,a new 1937 one anyway ) and it came from,I think,your part of the world..
First registered in 1938 to ..
Mr Kenneth Mackenzie
Achnahaird Farm
Achiltibuie by Garve
Ross Shire Scotland
Do you know the area ? ... the Farm is still there !

[maki]

Great playing.
Is that a Goldie?

[OBrien]

Does anyone have abc for this tune?

[pancelticpiper]

To many people the sound of the Highland pipes, and even more so of a Pipe Band, gets in the way of noticing that there are many quite lovely pipe tunes.

Put any of them on whistle, with nice string accompaniment, and suddenly non-pipers can hear how nice the tunes are.

One such is the very attractive Tommy MacDonald of Barguilleann.

Here it is, by the late wonderful Alasdair Gillies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLoqXujrHXs

If one can get past the fact that it's a pipe band and just listen to the music... here is the same tune, Tommy MacDonald of Barguilleann, followed by the wonderful jig McKenna's Ceilidh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWVRlktwq3Y

[whoanellie]

Does anyone have abc for this tune?

Here are abcs based on the Youtube link Kenny posted. I left out most of the cuts and such except where they're needed to understand the phrasing.

X: 1
T: Invergordon Distillery
C: Pipe Major John Davie Burgess
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: D
AB|:d2 ed B2 AB|d>AB<d e2 de|a2 af e2 de|f>ed<A B2 AB|
d2 ed B2 AB|d>AB<d e2 de|a2 af efd<B|1 d4 d2 AB:|2 d4 defg||
a2 a2 A2 A>e|f2 e{f}e f>e{fe}de|a2 af e2 de|f>ed<A B2 fg|
a2 f<a A2 A>e|f2 e{f}e f>e{fe}de|a3f efd<B|d4 defg|
a2 a2 A2 A>e|f2 e{f}e f>e{fe}de|a2 af e2 de|f>ed<A B2 AB|
d2 ed B2 AB|d>AB<d e2 de|a2 af efd<B|d4 zBAB||

[pancelticpiper]

BTW the tune is probably named for the band, rather than the distillery itself, as is mentioned above.

Here they are! The Invergordon Distillery Pipe Band

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3ybItP_m9I

And here's the man himself! In his typical fashion, dressed elegantly and with whisky and a smoke

[ScotsJim]

To many people the sound of the Highland pipes, and even more so of a Pipe Band, gets in the way of noticing that there are many quite lovely pipe tunes.

Put any of them on whistle, with nice string accompaniment, and suddenly non-pipers can hear how nice the tunes are.

I couldn't agree more with this. I love the sound of the bagpipes. When I was a child my old Argyllshire grandfather used to take me every year to Cowal Highland Games as well as Gourock Highland Games. Nowadays, many many of the tunes I play on the whistle are bagpipe tunes.

P.S. Fan of Alasdair Gillies, the great Gordon Duncan, and Anthony Byrne to name but a few

[ScotsJim]

I mentioned elsewhere that I'm co-hosting a folk / traditional radio programme here in Aberdeen. A few weeks back we were sent a 5-track "promo" CD by a young Scottish duo - Eddie Seaman [ Highland pipes and whistles ] and Luc McNally [ guitar and vocals ]. All of the tracks are good, but there is one particularly outstanding tune on the CD which I've never come across before. It's an air / march kind of tune, composed by the late Pipe Major John D. Burgess in memory of his time with the "Invergordon Distillery Pipe Band". It's called [ unsurprisingly ] "Invergordon Distillery", and I've just come across Eddie playing it on a "Youtube" video.

I'm not sure the link will work - here it is anyway,

http://youtu.be/ucpJy20_nbk

, if not use the "Youtube" "Search" function to find "Eddie Seaman - Invergordon Distillery".

A class piece of music, sometimes simple is best - see what you think.

Learning this tune ( by ear ) at the moment. Did I mention how awesome I think this tune this ?

[Tunborough]

Learning this tune ( by ear ) at the moment. Did I mention how awesome I think this tune this ?

Absolutely agree. Thanks, Kenny. Will you be playing this on the show?

I'm working on the tune, too, with the help of the ABC that whoanellie provided. I like it better every time I try it.

I'm having trouble with the second (and 6th and 10th) bar, around 0:48 in the video, which whoanellie gives as "|f2 e{f}e f>e{fe}de|". To my unsophisticated ear, it sounds more like "|fee<f e2de|". Can anyone give me some guidance on what Eddie Seaman is doing in that bar?

[whoanellie]

I may have gotten the phrasing wrong above. Or not. But it makes as much sense this way, too:
|f>e{f}ef (3efe de| or even more plainly as |feef (3efe de|

In other words, it's:
B1 to B2, cut with B1
Then back to B1
Then a triplet: B2, B1, B2
Then B3 to B2

Hope this helps.

[Tunborough]

Hope this helps.

Yes, it does. Thanks a lot for your help.