Tailor's Twist Hornpipe & Belle of Boston

[Eric Lerner]

Tailor's Twist is a traditional Irish hornpipe I learned from Randy Miller’s tune collection The Fiddler’s Throne.  His version is quite similar to the first setting on The Session --https://thesession.org/tunes/996

Played on my 40-button Wheatstone Edeophone 1934 D/A Anglo concertina. 

 

 

 

I found Belle of Boston in Ryan’s Mammoth Collection (1883).  Ryan calls it a reel, but I think it sounds more like a hornpipe.  Ryan attributes it to Boston composer Edwin Christie (not to be confused with Edwin Christy with a Y of the Christy Minstrels).  The notes and ABC are online here --

https://tunearch.org/wiki/Belle_of_Boston

 

 

[Matt Heumann]

Funny thing, Frank Edgley & I were just talking today about recording Tailor's Twist on our next video.

You beat us to it. Nice!