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Dingle Ragatta​/​A Little Village

from House Full 1976 by The McCalmans

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Instrumentals: Hamish came up with these two. "Dingle Ragatta" we owe to one, some, or all of the following: Paddy Moloney, Seán Ó Riada, The Chieftains and The Playboy of the Western World. Take your pick. The second is "The Little Village". There's a concertina and another whistle added later and I think that was due to a wee tuning problem. Every live album is beset by that problem. You need to play the music and yet constantly tune. We never had a tuner is those days so we tuned to the concertina. Hamish was also a brilliant tuner of the whistles, sometimes employing candles, hot water and whatever it took to get perfect pitch. Inevitably, in a live gig, strings would expand, contract or get thumped into oblivion.

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from House Full 1976, released March 31, 1976
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McCalmans Edinburgh, UK

Formed 1964, Edinburgh, studying Architecture. Ian McCalman, Derek Moffat, Hamish Bayne, for 18years.Then McCalman, Moffat, Nick Keir for 27yrs. Then McCalman, Keir, Stephen Quigg for 9yrs. 27 albums, multiple TV series. World tours. "Best live act" award, "Hall of Fame", "Hamish Henderson award", recorded 400 songs, retired 2010. folk singers, writers, talkers, travellers, Love Scotland. Friends! ... more

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