‎O'BRIEN, Gerry, O'BRIEN, Aisling.‎
‎A Bag Full of Melodies‎

‎Ashby parva, White House Tune Books N°9 2009 oblong 8°, 18 x 23 green paperback brochure 44 pp., 50 tunes A Collection of Duets and Trios for English Bagpipes selected and arranged by Aisling and Gerry O'BRIEN; Notes, bibliography, discography ‎

Reference : 166
ISBN : 0 907772 55 2

‎A Bag Full Of Melodies is a delightful collection of 50 English tunes, both traditional and newly composed, all arranged as duets or trios. Although written for bagpipes, they are suitable for all other melody instruments.Gerry O'Brien started his quest to re-discover English bagpiping in 1994 when he began playing the Leicestershire smallpipes. He was soon joined by his daughter Aisling and together they set about collecting a suitable English piping repertoire. This book is the result. When Gerry's wife Mary joined them they became a unique phenomenon in the English piping revival: a vibrant English piping trio whose claim to family ties is beyond all question. “One of the questions that newcomers to the bagpipers ask is where they can find tunes to build a repertoire. With this delightful collection of tunes for English Bagpipes Aisling and Gerry O’Brien come to the rescue. With fifty tunes in total there are more than enough for the novice to get going. As the tunes are all arranged for duets and trios, the collection also invites novices to explore the pleasures of harmony playing. The O’Brien’s have done an excellent job. The perfect book for beginners and more experienced players looking to explore harmony playing, this timely collection will doubtless find its way into many bagpipe cases and rightly so.”(Andy Letcher, Chanter, 2010) ; ‎