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Issue 2754: Two Willie Lawries

Object
Willie Lawrie (Person)
Submitter
Anselm Lingnau (anselm)
Assigned to
Anselm Lingnau
Priority
Normal
Disposition
Fixed
Description

This entry conflates two people called William/Willie Lawrie, namely P/M William Lawrie (1882-1916), a piper, and his grandson Willie Lawrie, who is an accordionist. The former wrote “The Battle of the Somme”, and the latter presumably many of the more modern tunes on the list. We will eventually have to attempt to disentangle that list, and I’m posting this as a reminder to ourselves.

Previous Actions

  • Date  April 7, 2022, 11:41 p.m.
  • User  Anselm Lingnau (anselm)

New issue submitted

  • Date  Dec. 26, 2022, 10:59 p.m.
  • User  Viktor Lehmann (tone2tone)

Assigned changed to »anselm« (previously »None«)
Disposition changed to »Needs help« (previously »New«)

pipetunes.ca list at least 14 known compositions of the bagpiper P/M William Lawrie, the older guy:
https://pipetunes.ca/tunes/?frm-search-text=&frm-time-sig=&frm-number-of-parts=&frm-composer=363&frm-arranger=&frm-difficulty-level=
Wiki says, only “around 20” of his compositions survived, and with our list of 14, we are VERY close.

I created a new entry for the Pipe Major and merged the ones over from his grandson that were on the list mentioned above. I then added the tunes for the Pipe Major that haven’t been in the database yet. I changed the notes for both persons, the grandson one might need adapation; and I linked them to one another, explaining their family relation.

Anselm, could you quickly double check if you are fine with that? The grandson list of tunes reads like “normal” dance tune names now, so I think we are quite good with that.

  • Date  Dec. 28, 2022, 2:30 p.m.
  • User  Anselm Lingnau (anselm)

Disposition changed to »Fixed« (previously »Needs help«)

This looks reasonable to me now. We can keep an eye on this going forward. Thanks for your help! Closing the issue now.