Name: Twa Corbies Mp3 by David Somerville
Duration: 3 min 48 s
Description: The Twa Corbies performed by Cobblers Last in about 1980.

Ian Mearns is the Member of Parliament for Gateshead.  His whistle can be heard loud and shrill in the Gallowgate End a St James's Park.

Ian Mearns's Whistle

TOTM for October first by Jack Armstrong and second by Don Clegg

Kielder Burnie/Doon the Redewater

NPS competitions 2021 - intermediates set. 2nd place, no cigar :-)

Tweedside & Shepherd's Hornpipe

The Twa Corbies performed by Cobblers Last in about 1980.

Twa Corbies Mp3

A tune/group of tunes commissioned by a bunch of pipers in Oxford!  They are still thinking of a name!

March of the Oxford Pipers (working title)

Gilder Roy

Kirkconnel Lea & Stagshaw Bank Fair (Bellingham 2022 intermediate comps set)

A traditional Galician Muniera followed by an original composition by John Bushby named after his wife, Caroline.  Played on the Borderpipes for this recording.

Muniera de Casu/Muniera Carolina

I took inspiration from Ann's Farrington's variations on Bonny at Morn E minor and the cross-rhythms she introduced, switching between 6/8 and 3/4. I also like the transition from darkness to light that switching from minor to major brings. E major is not often encountered on NSP.

Cymbeline's Castle is the remains of a motte-and-bailey castle in woods north of Great Kimble in Buckinghamshire. It's somewhere we often go walking with the dog and is special for a number of reasons: there is a large natural box woodland - important in musical instrument making; it skirts the grounds of Chequers, the country residence of the PM - very much in the news this week; it has the most amazing views over the Vale of Aylesbury - silent in the current lockdown.

Cymbeline’s Castle

Couple of recent tunes of mine. Compliments to Mr Quinn is for David Quinn, a good friend and outstanding pipe maker. Canada Water is named after a tube station!

Compliments to Mr Quinn/ Canada Water

NPS TOTM for January 2021 - Titles starting with "J"

Twa Corbies Mp3

David Somerville

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