Martin Carthy Teaches The Siege of Delhi
Now here is another march and this time it’s a 2, 4 march, it’s called the siege of Delhi, the tuning is exactly the same. C, G, C, D, G, A and this time instead of being in the key of C, its in the key of G, it’s called the Siege of Delhi, it’s a tune which pipers learned when they’re starting out. So for them it’s very simple, it’s not quite the same one in this part. You have to keep with your alternating thumbs and you’ll have a good time on this one I promise you. The tune dates from the middle of the last century about 1856 and is about one of the more destructive and more nasty episodes in British Military History but actually it’s a monument for a massive slaughter that took place in Delhi at the end of the siege. I’ll play it.
All I’ll do now is I’ll take the each section and I’ll play it once. Each section repeats when you actually play the piece but there are no variations, so I’ll play each piece once. Each sectioned ones, you’ll notice that on the last section the highest notes starts on the second string and the next one starts on the top string, so you get—you will find that as an interesting exercise, I don’t know but I’ll play each piece once, here we go.
Here is the second part, here is the third part, and here is the fourth part. Do that again.
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