Peter Wyper's

hornpipe

Key signature: Dmajor

Submitted on January 1st 2006 by nigelg.

This tune has been added to 16 tunebooks.

Also known as Ferry Bridge, Ferry Bridge Clog, The Ferry Bridge Clog, The Ferry Bridge, The Frisco, Peter Wiper's, Peter Wipers, Peter Wyper's Hornpipe No.1, The Wyper Brothers', Wyper's, Wypers, Wypers', The Wypers', The Wypers.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

A Thousand Farewells by Martin Dowling, Christine Dowling, Daithi Sproule
Ar An Bhfidil by Oisin MacDiarmada
Live-Disc 1 by Natalie MacMaster
Memories Of Galway by Seamus Walshe
My Roots Are Showing by Natalie MacMaster
Piper's Choice Volume 1 by Various Artists
The Call by Rebecca Lomnicky
The Humours Of Lisheen by John And Julia Clifford
The Luck Penny by Seamus Bugler
Traditionally Yours by Winston 'Scotty' Fitzgerald

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Peter Wyper's Hornpipe No.1

There are a few tunes under the generic name "Peter Wyper's" usually learned from 78rpm records by the eponymous Scots melodeon player, which is why I've given it its "No.1" suffix. The late Paddy O'Sullivan apparently played "The Old Cork Hornpipe" under the name "Peter Wyper's Hornpipe". The version here is from the playing of Scots accordionist Jimmy Blue, and it's not significantly different from Peter Wyper's untitled original:

# Posted on January 1st 2006 by nigelg

The Ring Sessions

This is also the tune labeled Gan Ainm on Track 3 of The Ring Sessions by James Kelly & Zan McLeod:
http://www.thesession.org/recordings/display/440/

# Posted on February 24th 2007 by MTGuru

"The Ferry Bridge Hornpipe / Clog"

# Posted on January 4th 2008 by ceolachan

"Ferry Bridge Hornpipe" / "Wypers'" ~ The Fiddler's Companion ~ Andrew Kuntz

http://www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/
http://www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/FE_FH.htm#FERRY_BRIDGE_HORNPIPE

FERRY BRIDGE HORNPIPE. English (originally), Canadian; Hornpipe. England, Yorkshire. Canada; Cape Breton, Prince Edward Island. D Major. Standard tuning. AABB. The Ferrybridge is the name of a span in Yorkshire, note Merryweather & Seattle. The tune appears in Cole’s 1000 and its predecessor, Ryan’s Mammoth Collection (1883), “as performed by” J. Hand. New York City writer, musician and researcher Don Meade believes this refers to one of two brothers, John and James Hand, who were fiddlers in the Massachusetts area in the mid-19th century. The tune was recorded by Cape Breton fiddle Winston Fitzgerald, paired with “Sumner’s Hornpipe,” which appears on the same page in Ryan’s Mammoth Collection (1883) just below “Ferry Bridge.” Meade also relates that the melody was recorded early in the 20th century by the Wyper Brothers, a melodeon-playing duo from Scotland. The tune became so associated with them that it acquired their name, and is often called “Wypers.”

# Posted on January 4th 2008 by ceolachan

"The Ferry Bridge Hornpipe / Clog" ~ under the influence

# Posted on January 4th 2008 by ceolachan