The Gathering Quiz Night. - Printable Version

The Gathering Quiz Night. - Printable Version

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The Gathering Quiz Night. - JAJ - 21-03-2009 01:36 PM

I tried this on Footsompin' once but they're too busy arguing about Gaelic to be much concerned about music these days.

Anyway, here goes

By what name is the tune "March Of The Meeatoiteen Bull" better known?

(Whoever answers a question correctly can get to pose the next one...)

RE: The Gathering Quiz Night. - Anne R - 21-03-2009 10:01 PM

Miss Thornton's?

RE: The Gathering Quiz Night. - nigelgatherer - 22-03-2009 12:57 AM

Nah, it's the drunken conductor, or some such... hic

RE: The Gathering Quiz Night. - JAJ - 22-03-2009 08:21 AM

Correct, Nigel. Or "The Drunken Piper" which I'm sure you knew.

Your turn. Smile

RE: The Gathering Quiz Night. - nigelgatherer - 22-03-2009 10:03 AM

Yes, JAJ, March Of The Meeatoiteen Bull is the name under which the great Donegal fiddler John Doherty played The Drunken Piper, a well known Scottish pipe tune. The Doherty family were once known as pipers, which is why you find pipe tunes in their repertoire.

Another tune which John Doherty played was a dance tune known in Scotland pre-Burns as Lady Badinscoth's Reel, and as a song called Put up thy dagger, Jamie. Now it's almost universally known as...

What?

RE: The Gathering Quiz Night. - Anne R - 22-03-2009 10:17 AM

Ok Nigel, I'll have another shot at the quiz. How about 'My love she's but a lassie yet'?

RE: The Gathering Quiz Night. - nigelgatherer - 22-03-2009 10:19 AM

Spot on, Anne. Your turn.

RE: The Gathering Quiz Night. - Anne R - 22-03-2009 10:31 AM

Ta Nigel, ok here goes -

The song version of 'Teribus' has 24 verses(!) but how many are usually sung?

RE: The Gathering Quiz Night. - petemorris - 22-03-2009 11:47 AM

A wild guess. 6 verses are usually sung. How many more guesses am I allowed? Smile

RE: The Gathering Quiz Night. - nigelgatherer - 22-03-2009 12:02 PM

Twenty three and a half?

RE: The Gathering Quiz Night. - George - 22-03-2009 12:09 PM

12 verses? and not by me!!

Regarding the first question:-
The 'Drunken Piper' is also found in Ross's Collection of Pipe Music under the title 'Highland Rory.'

RE: The Gathering Quiz Night. - petemorris - 22-03-2009 12:13 PM

I`ll not be greedy Nigel. My wild guess may just be the correct answer.

RE: The Gathering Quiz Night. - Anne R - 22-03-2009 12:26 PM

One of you is very close!

Here's a clue -
Add the number of recruitin' sergeants to the number of men drinking wine in Yarrow!

RE: The Gathering Quiz Night. - Anne R - 23-03-2009 01:13 PM

Wot? No takers? Ok, here's the answer -

Eleven!

According to my 'Hawick Song Collection' the verses normally sung are 1, 2, 4, 7, 8, 12, 15, 18, 19, 20 and 24. Thank God for that some would say! At the risk of offending any Teris out there, this misses out such gems as -
'Sacred was the widow's portion,
Sacred long from all extortion;
Frugal temperance urged no cesses,
Birthday rates, nor bailies' messes.'
Yes, well!

By the way 'Twa Recruitin' Sergeants' and 'these nine sat drinking at the wine' (The Dowie Dens o' Yarrow).

12 was nearest so over to you George? Big Grin

RE: The Gathering Quiz Night. - George - 24-03-2009 10:21 AM

OK! OK! Ma shot noo.

Which category does the Tremolo Mouth Organ come in to?

a - Chromatic
b - Diatonic
c - Ginintonic

RE: The Gathering Quiz Night. - Eric Renshaw - 24-03-2009 11:18 AM

(24-03-2009 10:21 AM)George Wrote: Which category does the Tremolo Mouth Organ come in to?
a - Chromatic
b - Diatonic
c - Ginintonic

Presumably "c" (hic! Blush

RE: The Gathering Quiz Night. - George - 24-03-2009 01:35 PM

Afraid not Eric, hic! ;-)

RE: The Gathering Quiz Night. - Calum Galleitch - 24-03-2009 08:10 PM

Randomly dropping this in, as I found it on a Mudcat thread the other day looking for something quite irrelevant. It's from Alice Through the Looking Glass:

To the Looking-Glass world it was Alice that said
"I've a sceptre in hand, I've a crown on my head.
Let the Looking-Glass creatures, whatever they be
Come dine with the Red Queen, the White Queen and Me!"

Then fill up the glasses as quick as you can,
And sprinkle the table with buttons and bran:
Put cats in the coffee, and mice in the tea--
And welcome Queen Alice with thirty-times-three!

"O Looking-Glass creatures," quoth Alice, "draw near!
'Tis and honour to see me, a favour to ear:
'Tis a privilege high to have dinner and tea
Along with the Red Queen, the White Queen, and Me!"

Then fill up the glasses with treacle and ink,
Or anything else that is pleasant to drink:
Mix sand with the cider, and wool with the wine--
And welcome Queen Alice with ninety-times-nine!

I've heard a few parodies of that song, but this one, well, it wins Smile

RE: The Gathering Quiz Night. - nigelgatherer - 29-05-2009 05:24 PM

George asked:

Quote:Which category does the Tremolo Mouth Organ come in to?

a - Chromatic
b - Diatonic
c - Ginintonic

b - Diatonic?

RE: The Gathering Quiz Night. - George - 29-05-2009 07:37 PM

Well done Nigel! Diatonic it is. Your shot noo.

RE: The Gathering Quiz Night. - Trish Santer - 02-06-2009 10:57 PM

The tremolo comes the day AFTER the Ginintonic?
So what's both chromatic and diatonic?

RE: The Gathering Quiz Night. - nigelgatherer - 03-06-2009 07:46 AM

What's both chromatic and diatonic? What's both chromatic and diatonic? Mmm. Oh Trish, that's a difficult one. I'll need to think about this...

RE: The Gathering Quiz Night. - nigelgatherer - 13-06-2009 08:15 AM

In the Gesto Collection of Highland Music (1895), there is a slow tune entitled The Bonnie Banks of Ayr. In this book it is stated that it had been composed by a particular prominent Scotsman usually not known for writing tunes. Who was he?

RE: The Gathering Quiz Night. - Calum Galleitch - 15-06-2009 09:46 PM

This is a guess, but given the locality, Burns? I have an inkling that he wrote the very occasional tune.

RE: The Gathering Quiz Night. - nigelgatherer - 15-06-2009 10:32 PM

You're right, Calum. It is generally accepted that Burns did not compose any tunes, and I have no idea of the accuracy of this attribution, but it is there, in black and white.

Your turn.

RE: The Gathering Quiz Night. - Calum Galleitch - 20-06-2009 10:40 AM

At last, a use for all the drivel I have been accumulating for oh so many years.

One of the classic 2/4 competition style pipe marches is the mighty six-parted tune Lord Alexander Kennedy, by Black Watch piper James Honeyman, published in the Scots Guards book one. But what is its full title?

RE: The Gathering Quiz Night. - nigelgatherer - 21-06-2009 08:43 AM

"Lord Alexander Kennedy's Older Brother, 12th Earl of Clachnapudding's Penultimate Farewell to his Cousin's Sister's Dog's Litter on the Occasion of Its Reemergence from Puppyhood" ?

RE: The Gathering Quiz Night. - nigelgatherer - 28-06-2009 12:34 PM

Since Calum's being quiet, I'll pop in an easy one:

Who's this Scottish musician?

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RE: The Gathering Quiz Night. - Brian McClory - 28-06-2009 03:42 PM

Could this be the venerable Jimmy Shand?

RE: The Gathering Quiz Night. - nigelgatherer - 28-06-2009 04:12 PM

Well done, Brian, it's Sir Jimmy playing a fiddle. Whatever next? Hector MacAndrew playing a melodeon?

RE: The Gathering Quiz Night. - Calum Galleitch - 12-07-2009 07:36 PM

Oops, forgot all about this! The full title is "Lord Alexander Kennedy's March Through the Garden of Gethsemane". The Black Watch, or whatever you call them this week, have Honeyman's original MS somewhere.

RE: The Gathering Quiz Night. - nigelgatherer - 31-10-2009 05:56 PM

Can you name all of these musicians?

1.
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RE: The Gathering Quiz Night. - JAJ - 09-12-2009 02:22 PM

1 Tom Anderson and Peerie Willie Johnson

2. Tommy Makem? Only a guess

3. Face looks familiar

In the meantime, can anyone identify a more common name for this tune?

"The Cat That Kittled In Jamie's Wig"

RE: The Gathering Quiz Night. - nigelgatherer - 11-12-2009 09:23 AM

Answers to photo questions:

1) Tom Anderson and "Peerie" Willie Johnson (well done, JAJ).
2) (A very young) Iain Mackintosh
3) Sean O'Rourke of the JSD Band and ALBA.

RE: The Gathering Quiz Night. - nigelgatherer - 11-12-2009 09:25 AM

(09-12-2009 02:22 PM)JAJ Wrote: ...can anyone identify a more common name for this tune?

"The Cat That Kittled In Jamie's Wig"

Since nobody else is playing, JAJ, I'll say off the top of my head - is it Miss Lyall?

RE: The Gathering Quiz Night. - JAJ - 11-12-2009 09:50 AM

Correct. Well done, many Irish musicians seem to know it by that name.

I was going to make a wild guess at Iain McIntosh too but I didn't know him back then.

It is Sean O'Rourke right enough and I've got a couple of JSD Band albums here too. Smile