Sheet Music: Greig's Pipes

TitleGreig's Pipes
Alternate titlesCraig's Pipes
The Cobbler's Hornpipe
Connolly's Reel
The Fiddler is Drunk
The Kerry Huntsman
Willie Winkie's Testament
Willy Wilky
ComposerTraditional Scottish
InstrumentationFlute solo
KeyA major
RangeE4–A5
Time signature4/4
Tempo132 BPM
Performance time1:00
Difficulty levelintermediate
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Date added2019-04-14
Last updated2019-04-14
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Categories
Celtic Music, Reels, Strathspeys, Traditional/Folk

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Sunday 14 April 2019

Tune of the Day: Greig's Pipes

Traditional Irish reel and strathspey

According to John Glen's volume Early Scottish Melodies (1900), this tune is a composition of James Greig, a teacher of dancing in Ayrshire, in south-west Scotland. The melody must date back at least to the mid-18th century, as it appears in the Gillespie Manuscript of Perth (1768).