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Gipsy melodeon player, Lementina “Lemmie” Brazil, was born near Southampton and spent 26 years of her youth in Ireland, before her family returned to England to settle in Gloucester. She described some of her tunes as “Irish” and used to play for step-dance competitions. Peter Shepheard recorded her in the 1960’s and early 70’s and Gwilym Davies recorded her twice, in October 1977 and April 1981, when she was living on a caravan site near Gloucester. She was also recorded by Rod and Rhona Smith. She played a one-row melodeon in C. We have transcribed her music in D or G.
The youngest of her siblings, Danny Brazil, like many of the family, was able to play a few vigorous dance tunes on the mouth organ. Denny Smith was an uncle of the well-known singer Wiggy Smith. (See MustradCD, MTCD307, Wiggy Smith, Band of Gold). Peter Shepheard recorded him playing the Manchester Hornpipe . He played it twice, once alone and then for Danny Brazil to step to. The second time, he played in a more dotted rhythm than the first. On the same occasion he played the Cliff Hornpipe, but unfortunately the first 2 1⁄2 bars were not recorded. A triple CD of the family’s music and songs can be obtained from Musical Traditions, MT CD 339-40, www.mustrad.org.uk.
notes by Paul Burgess and Charles Menteith
Index of Tunes
Title | ABC no. | pdf page | Musician |
Boys of Wexford, The | 28 | 12 | Lemmie Brazil |
Campbells Are Coming, The | 2 | 1 | Lemmie Brazil |
Cliff Hornpipe | 32 | 14 | Denny Smith |
Cock of the North | 4 | 2 | Danny Brazil |
Cock of the North | 3 | 1 | Lemmie Brazil |
Easy and Free | 11 | 5 | Lemmie Brazil |
God Killed the Devil Oh! | 19 | 8 | Lemmie Brazil |
Good Luck to the Irishman | 6 | 3 | Lemmie Brazil |
Harvest Home | 20 | 9 | Lemmie Brazil |
Hornpipe 1 | 13 | 6 | Lemmie Brazil |
Hornpipe 2 | 14 | 6 | Lemmie Brazil |
Hornpipe 3 | 15 | 7 | Lemmie Brazil |
Hornpipe 4 | 16 | 7 | Lemmie Brazil |
Hornpipe 5 | 17 | 8 | Lemmie Brazil |
Hornpipe 6 | 18 | 8 | Lemmie Brazil |
Hornpipe 8 | 32 | 14 | Denny Smith |
I Wish my Baby was Born | 10 | 4 | Lemmie Brazil |
I’m Walking behind You | 8 | 4 | Lemmie Brazil |
Irish Clouds Reel | 22 | 10 | Lemmie Brazil |
Irish Hornpipe | 13 | 6 | Lemmie Brazil |
Irish Jig | 1 | 1 | Lemmie Brazil |
Irish Jig 2 | 2 | 1 | Lemmie Brazil |
Keel Row, The | 16 | 7 | Lemmie Brazil |
Little Hot Jig | 23 | 10 | Lemmie Brazil |
Manchester Hornpipe | 30 | 13 | Danny Brazil |
Manchester Hornpipe | 31 | 13 | Denny Smith |
Manchester Hornpipe | 15 | 7 | Lemmie Brazil |
Merry Widow’s Waltz, The | 9 | 4 | Lemmie Brazil |
Miss McLeod’s Reel | 22 | 10 | Lemmie Brazil |
No Luck about the House | 25 | 11 | Lemmie Brazil |
Oh Susanna! | 24 | 11 | Lemmie Brazil |
Roaming (Rambling) Irishman, The | 7 | 3 | Lemmie Brazil |
Sailor’s Hornpipe | 21 | 9 | Lemmie Brazil |
Singer was Irish | 12 | 5 | Lemmie Brazil |
Soldier’s Joy | 21 | 9 | Lemmie Brazil |
Take me to my Kind Old Mother | 29 | 12 | Lemmie Brazil |
Tap Dance | 14 | 6 | Lemmie Brazil |
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp the Boys are Marching | 27 | 12 | Lemmie Brazil |
Untitled Jig | 5 | 2 | Danny Brazil |
Wearing of the Green | 26 | 11 | Lemmie Brazil |