Union Pipes - Irish Traditional Music Archive
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63<br />
SPreAD OF ‘UnIOn PIPeS’<br />
By the following year P. O’Farrell had embarked on the seminal<br />
music-publishing work for which he is remembered today. From<br />
1804 to about 1811 he edited collections of <strong>Irish</strong> and Scottish<br />
instrumental music in london, and in them gave precedence to the<br />
pipes and further authority to Courtney’s term: O Farrell’s Collection<br />
of National <strong>Irish</strong> <strong>Music</strong> for the <strong>Union</strong> <strong>Pipes</strong>... Adapted Likewise for<br />
the German Flute, Violin, Flagelet [sic], Piano and Harp...<br />
Gentlemen may Likewise be Accommodated with Real Toned <strong>Irish</strong><br />
<strong>Pipes</strong>; and later O Farrells Pocket Companion for the <strong>Irish</strong> or <strong>Union</strong><br />
<strong>Pipes</strong>... Adapted for the <strong>Pipes</strong>, Flute, Flageolet and Violin vols<br />
1–4. 192 In these titles O’Farrell seems to be going out of his way to<br />
emphasise that the union pipes are <strong>Irish</strong> pipes, and throughout the<br />
publications he conscientiously attributes tunes to an <strong>Irish</strong> or Scottish<br />
origin when possible. In 1808 he is advertising a ‘<strong>Union</strong> Pipe Concert<br />
and Ball’ in london. 193<br />
The Courtney term was likewise used in print by the <strong>Irish</strong><br />
professional piper richard Fitzmaurice, who in April 1803 was<br />
advertised as playing the ‘union pipes’ in london. 194 he played<br />
frequently in Scotland, and published in edinburgh about 1805<br />
Fitzmaurice’s New Collection of <strong>Irish</strong> Tunes. Adapted for the Piano<br />
Forte, <strong>Union</strong> Pipe, Flute, & Violin. 195 The new term was again used<br />
1809 he appeared in Oscar and Malvina in Covent garden with yet another<br />
harper ‘Mr nicholson’ (Caledonian Mercury, edinburgh, 28 Oct. 1809; Covent<br />
garden handbill, 1 nov. 1809, in library of Congress, Washington DC) and<br />
again in 1811 in the same piece and venue with nicholson (Covent garden handbill,<br />
6 June 1811, in library of Congress).<br />
192<br />
For details of editions etc. see Cannon 1980: 81–5.<br />
193<br />
Morning Post, london, 14 Apr. 1808.<br />
194<br />
Morning Chronicle, london, 11 Apr. 1803. In 1806 in london he was playing<br />
the ‘<strong>Irish</strong> pipes’ (Morning Chronicle, london, 18 Mar. 1806). For his first name<br />
see Sanger 2009: 20.<br />
195<br />
See Cannon 1980: 87.