Piper's Chair - irishtune.info

Basic musical information on this tune.
Rhythm ?	Bars	8-bar phrase structure	Mode ?
Double jig	32	AABB	G Major

Discography

Here are all recordings of this tune considering only the indexed recordings. I have discovered by careful listening that these sources are in fact musically the same tune, regardless of the tune titles they use, key changes, retuning, etc.

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Year Recorded	Track #Tune?	[Album code] Artist. Title (Link to Album Info page). Performers (instruments).
~1963	2#1	[SaaS] Peadar Ó Lochlainn and Aggie Whyte. Seancheol ar an Seannós. Peadar Ó Lochlainn (flute), Aggie Whyte (fiddle).
~1971	2.4#1	[NaF 2] Na Filí. Farewell to Connacht. Tomás Ó Canainn (pipes, accordion, vocals), Matt Cranitch (fiddle), Tom Barry (whistle).
~1974	2.14#2	[MR 10] Micho Russell. Rarities and Old Favorites 1949-1993. Micho Russell (whistle, flute, vocals). For this tune: (whistle).
~1979	2.2#2	[AWhyte] Aggie Whyte. Aggie Whyte. Aggie Whyte (fiddle).
~1993	5#1	[BG 5] Bobby Gardiner. The Master's Choice. Bobby Gardiner (accordion).
~1993	16#1 (2:17)	[MR 7] Micho Russell. In Our Own Dear Land. Micho Russell (whistle, flute, vocals). For this tune: (Eb flute).
1999	10#1	[GCJR] Gerard Commane and Joe Ryan with Eoin O'Neill. Two Gentlemen of Clare Music. Gerard Commane (concertina), Joe Ryan (fiddle). For this tune: Joe (fiddle).
~1999	2#1	[BCB 2] The Bridge Céilí Band. Sparks on Flags. Tom Ahearne (fiddle), Robert Gleeson (fiddle), Karen Gavigan (fiddle), Carthage Daly (fiddle), Catherine McHugh (fiddle), James Kinsella (accordion), Fionnuala Gleeson (flute), Eugene Nolan (flute), Pat O'Meara (piano, synthesizer), Liam McCormack (drums, bodhrán).
~2004	11#2	[TTItself] Maeve Donnelly and Peadar O'Loughlin. The Thing Itself. Maeve Donnelly (fiddle), Peadar O'Loughlin (flute).
2006	1#2	[MOR 2] Mícheál Ó Raghallaigh. Inside Out. Mícheál Ó Raghallaigh (concertina).
2012	6#1	[PDArcy] Patrick D'Arcy. Wallop the Spot. Patrick D'Arcy (pipes, whistle). For this tune: (B pipes).
~2014	12#3	[ECrn 1] Éilís Crean. The Lonesome Fiddler. Celebrating the Music of Eddie Kelly and the East Galway Irish Music Tradition. Éilís Crean (fiddle).

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In the above Discography, this tune is:

Played after	On Albums
Nightingale	AWhyte
Cliffs of Moher	MR 10
Queen of the Rushes	TTItself
Hag's Purse	MOR 2
Statia Donnelly's	ECrn 1

Played before	On Albums
Maid in the Meadow	GCJR, MOR 2
Whelan's Jig	SaaS
Rose in the Heather	NaF 2
Queen of the Rushes	BG 5
Sliabh Bloom	BCB 2
Langstern Pony	PDArcy
Anthony Frawley's	ECrn 1

Bibliography

Here are all transcriptions of this tune considering only the indexed books, listed in chronological order. I have discovered by careful comparison that these are musical matches to this tune as played on the recordings listed above.

Listing of published transcriptions of this tune.
As tune #18 in [1850] Francis O'Neill and James O'Neill. O'Neill's Music of Ireland. [available]
As tune #91 in volume 3 of [R] Francis Roche. The Roche Collection of Traditional Irish Music. 3 vols. [available]
As tune #9 in [CRE 1] Breandán Breathnach. Ceol Rince na hÉireann 1. [available]
On page 32 of [RM] Randy Miller and Jack Perron. Irish Traditional Fiddle Music. [available]
As jig #57 in [MM] Martin Mulvihill. First Collection of Traditional Irish Music.

If you are considering using the above transcriptions to help you learn this tune, I invite you to check these practical Tips for Learning Irish Traditional Music. See also: So why do you bother indexing books and abc?

Year of the oldest source for this tune, considering only the recordings and transcriptions listed above (note that I concentrate on sources after 1900): 1903

Tune ID#3045 (Piper's Chair)

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