![]() I was doing slurs, rolls, syncopations, detached bowing, staccato bowing and I done two years bowing exercises. I had an opportunity to interview him in 1995, and here’s how he described their genesis: In the late 1940s, fiddler Sean McGuire of Belfast, Ireland created a widely emulated set of variations for Mason’s Apron. The Southern US tune Wake Up Susan takes the low turn of Mason’ Apron and combines it with a completely different second part. It has since been recorded by dozens of musicians from the Irish, Scottish, and various North American traditions. The earliest known commercial recording of Mason’s Apron was cut in 1915 by an accordion player from New York City named John J. As Mason’s Apron, it was carried through the 19th and early 20th centuries by a succession of popular tune collections, notably The Gow Repository (1799), Surenne’s Dance Music of Scotland (1852), Kerr’s Merry Melodies (1875), Ryan’s Mammoth Collection, aka 1000 Fiddle Tunes (1882), The Skye Collection (1887), and O’Neill’s Music of Ireland (1903). ![]() Mason’s Apron is known all across PEI and has in all likelihood been played there for generations.Īn early version of this tune entitled Braes of Glenorchy appears in Alexander MacGlashen’s A Collection of Strathspey Reels (1778).
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