It seems Planxty does a 5 part version, Seamus Ennis does an interesting 6 part version, and I have an old recording of Leo Rowseome playing even a 7 part version. The question I ask is, which one is most commonly played? Assuming there is a "most common" one played of course.
Planxty's 5 part version is what I play. I don't know what's commonly played either. I'm pretty much the only person that plays it at all in my neck o' the woods.
Bill
"... you discover that everything is just right: the drones steady and sonorous, the regulators crisp and tuneful and the chanter sweet and responsive. ... I really look forward to those five or six days every year." Robbie Hannan
Seamus Ennis on Return From Fingal, and The Wandering Minstrel.
As for the Leo Rowsome recording I have, that was downloaded from a public domain website, which also has many other OLD recordings of the past's greats in ITM.
Sure sounded like the 1st two parts of "Frieze Britches" followed by another jig, "Will You Come Home with Me?". I wonder if O'Flynn gave them the abridged version of FB for demonstration purposes.
Bill
"... you discover that everything is just right: the drones steady and sonorous, the regulators crisp and tuneful and the chanter sweet and responsive. ... I really look forward to those five or six days every year." Robbie Hannan
Tell us something.: Whistle player, aspiring C#/D accordion and flute player, and aspiring tunesmith. Particularly interested in the music of South Sligo and Newfoundland. Inspired by the music of Peter Horan, Fred Finn, Rufus Guinchard, Emile Benoit, and Liz Carroll.
Which is basically a two-part version of "Frieze Britches".
Quite true. I guess what I meant to point out was that he was not simply playing the first two parts of the same setting of Frieze Britches as he played/recorded with Planxty.
SteveB wrote:I think the 1st jig Liam plays in that clip is actually "I Buried My Wife an Danced on Her Grave".
SteveB
You're right! I can't believe I missed that!
Bill
"... you discover that everything is just right: the drones steady and sonorous, the regulators crisp and tuneful and the chanter sweet and responsive. ... I really look forward to those five or six days every year." Robbie Hannan