Irish bagpipes solo, Lyric 4117, NYC ca 1919. Irish bagpipes solo, Lyric 4117, NYC ca 1919. Fitzpatrick was a Leitrim flute player who learned the Highland pipes as a teenager in Scotland, and took up the Irish pipes in America. He was a sucessful buisnessman who built a venue, Celtic Hall, in New York City, and also toured with various vaudeville companies. His simple lively piping, augmented by his intermittent taps and chords on his regulators, is typical of the pipers recorded in America at this time. Francis O'Neill wrote that this was the standard tune for the Highland Fling dance in Chicago in the late 19th/early 20th centuries. A very suitable tune for Irish pipes, it was recorded occasionally on 78s, mostly by ensembles.
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