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I was very taken by this jig when I first heard it played by James Kelly. James told me it was one of Willie Clancy’s and that Willie also had a second setting of it. It was common during the old days in Ireland for a man to ‘strop’ his razor against a leather belt as a means of sharpening the blade before shaving. The procedure was almost like whetting the blade of a scythe against a sharpening stone.
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