Name: March of the Fat Friars by Travelling Piper
Duration: 1 min 48 s
Description: A lightweight ¾ piece. These overweight monks of very unsteady gait are heading off to a retreat. They are clearly short of breath, and one appears to tread on a companion’s foot. Fortunately there are more gracenotes as the piece progresses. This piece is best played with a hard reed prone to squeal!.

I found the name of this town so interesting that I composed a pipetune for it. It's also the birthplace of Matt Molloy of The Chieftains - a favourite traditional Irish band

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Ballagaderreen

Ballaghaderreen

My wife Briar supplied this very apt title. A March.

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Sun on the Corn

A lightweight ¾ piece. These overweight monks of very unsteady gait are heading off to a retreat. They are clearly short of breath, and one appears to tread on a companion’s foot. Fortunately there are more gracenotes as the piece progresses. This piece is best played with a hard reed prone to squeal!.

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March of the Fat Friars

March of the Fat  Friars

All the pipetunes on this channel are original compositions. Neil Whitehead has been playing the Great Highland Bagpipe since he was 12 and composing for it for decades. Some of these  tunes are within the conventions and some outside. Enjoy! Pipers, you will find these tunes and downloadable manuscript music for them on his website: https://neilspipetunes.nz

March of the Fat Friars

Travelling Piper

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