Border Pipes ''The Original Teribus'' duet Matt Seattle & Bill Telfer

Teribus is Hawick&iconic song and ancient anthem. This tune bears no relationship to a different tune of this name believed to be a 1950&highland pipe invention. Here we play the original tune collected from the Hawick Toun Piper Walter Ballantyne in 1777. The Toun Piper and drummer provided the music for the Common Riding until 1797 when the pipes were replaced by a fife. This developed into the present day Fife and Drum Band whose rendition of Teribus is central to the Common Riding ceremonial. Their version of the tune and is very similar to what we are playing. The 1777 manuscript can be found in Hawick Museum titled "The Original Set of Teribus as played by Walter Ballantine Town Piper, in 1777". Following the tune a note reads "This is the tow [sic] parts that Answer the Song" followed by an exact copy of strains 4 and 2 in that order. There is a metrical anomaly in the manuscript: in strain 1 bars 1 and 3 the note values do not quite make a full bar, so we have changed the first note, a dotted quaver, to a crotchet; also the key signature is changed from 1 to 2 sharps, corresponding both to the pipe scale and to the way the tune is still sung and played. See another Youtube we produced last year &location&at the museum and at the 1514 memorial in Hawick High Street, &Horse&Yet another video is relevant- the Fife and Drum playing Teribus on the night before the Common Riding in June 2011.