Drunken Piper, The

Kind of Tune
reel
Place of Origin
Scotland

This is a Scottish pipe march, played in reel tempo. The original tune had four parts but on PEI fiddlers generally only play two or three of them. The Omar Cheverie version (see accompanying notation) has three parts; the Hilda MacPhee MacDonald version has only two parts (notation for her version appears in The Fiddle Music of Prince Edward Island).

Notation

As played by Omar Cheverie

Tune Selections

Pride of the Ball / Drunken Piper Musician: Hilda MacPhee MacDonald, Recordist: Ken Perlman Accompanied by: Ken Perlman, bjo Northeast Kings info
Miss Drummond of Perth / Devil in the Kitchen / Black Mill / Drunken Piper Musician: Omar Cheverie, Recordist: Ken Perlman Accompanied by: Randy Cheverie, pno Northeast Kings info
Pride of the Ball / Drunken Piper Musician: George MacPhee, Recordist: Ken Perlman Accompanied by: Ken Perlman, bjo Northeast Kings info