Irish Flute Tunes
By Michael Clarkson
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Traditional Irish Flute Tunes (iflute@googlemail.com)
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Introduction | *** CD: Harry Bradley and Michael Clarkson *** The Pleasures of Hope - flute music from Belfast and Beyond This recording is now available in Ireland at: http://claddaghrecords.com/WWW/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=158products_id=2887 and in the USA at: http://www.ossianusa.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD8Store_Code=ossian8Product_Code=01838-CD and in the UK at: http://www.allcelticmusic.com/music/d92ee386-d8e2-102c-967a-12313b000932/The%20Pleasures%20of%20Hope.html Here's our 'pop video' from the CD: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbnuIYp6HsI Hello. This site contains recordings I have made as a source of tunes for people who play the flute, or other instruments for that matter. They are just versions of tunes as I remember them. My memory isn’t the best so some of the versions and the titles might be a bit astray but hopefully they’ll be of some use. I usually play the tunes once through slowly to make them easier to learn, then I have a bit of a run at them to give another view of them. I hope this approach is OK. If anyone has any comments, or tune suggestions, please get in touch (iflute@googlemail.com). At this stage tune suggestions are particularly welcome as my "isn't the best" memory has started to resist my attempts to plunder it for any more material. Thanks, Michael. (The tunes are split over a number of pages to stop the pages being too slow to load. To go to the next page, please click on Previous Entries at the bottom of the page, otherwise use the index on the left of the screen to navigate to a specific tune). These tunes are now available via iTunes so you don't even have to go through the displeasing process of accessing this site directly to hear them. Hearing the tunes may be hardship enough in itself. I don't really know what the iTunes caper means but a search for "Irish Flute Tunes" will point to where this stuff lives in iTunesville. The URL via which to subscribe is http://irishflute.podbean.com/feed . If that all made no sense to you then welcome to my world. Slowing Down Tunes Just in case the tunes on this site aren’t dull enough, you can slow them down using recent versions of Windows Media Player (I’m sure there are plenty of other ways of doing this too). In Windows Media player click Now Playing at the top of the screen then pick Enhancements and then Play Speed Settings. There is a nice range of speeds displayed but I can only get the half speed one to work. That’s probably enough to be getting on with in any case.Download Standard Podcast | 25 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Lavin’s Favourite (reel) | This also goes under the name of 'Lavan's Favorite' in 'Ryan's Mammoth Collection'. I've tried to play it fairly close to the dotty version here: http://www.oldmusicproject.com/AA3Sheet/1201-1800/Sheet-1501-1600/1551-LarryChoice.gif (Larry Lavin's Choice). A combination of warm weather and a bit of recent, regular playing has allowed me to get through this tune on my boxwood flute without it falling apart (that's the flute I'm talking about - not so sure about poor Larry's reel).Download Standard Podcast | 25 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dillon Brown (aka Laington’s reel) | Here's a fairly straightforward version of a popular reel in A. I avoided any G sharps in the slow version lest I may sustain a cut finger. There may be one or two (sharps and / or damaged digits) lurking around the quicker version.Download Standard Podcast | 20 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Girls of Banbridge (jig) | Here's an approximation of O'Neill's version of a popular jig. The dots can be found at: http://www.oldmusicproject.com/AA3Sheet/0701-1200/Sheet-0801-0900/0812-GirlsBanbridge.gif If you want to hear it played properly you could do worse than click on this link: http://archive.org/details/MichaelColemanGirlsofBainbridgeCherishtheLadies . The name in Coleman's version is 'Bainbridge' - maybe a reference to characters in Beryl's very early work (she'd have been 8 at the time).Download Standard Podcast | 16 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Carolan’s Concerto | Here's a different sort of tune by way of a change. I've just played each part singly the first time round. If I appear to be rushing a bit during the quicker version that's probably because I was being distracted by the smell of the 'Young's Chip Shop Fish Fillet in Crisp Bubbly Batter' which is in the process of being turned into my dinner in my oven. I bet Carolan never had that problem. If he did occasionally salivate over the notion of some 17th / 18th century convenience food it was probably not too much of an encumbrance on his harp playing anyway.Download Standard Podcast | 26 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Thrush in the Storm | I hope the title of this reel refers to matters ornithological and meteorological and not medical. I was reminded of this tune today when I heard a recording of Sheila O'Dowd playing it (http://www.colemanirishmusic.com/shop/product.php?id=13 track 16). It is in Breathnach's Ceol Rince na hÉireann vol. 1 and someone has kindly made the notes available at http://tunepal.org/tunepal/showdots.php?id=11667. That's about all I have to say on the matter just now.Download Standard Podcast | 10 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Ballina Lasses | I've been trying to learn to play a C#D accordion and was reminded of this tune while playing through a few books as a way of telling my fingers that there's more than one melody in the world. The box playing may be a sort of insurance against tooth loss which would make the flute sound a bit gummy; cleaning and flossing might be an easier approach. This tune is in the book 'Trip to Sligo' under the title 'Come up in the room I want you'. I played it (on the flute) into the tunepal.org machine and was given the title I've used here. The person in the 'up in the room' name may even have been addressing the Ballina Lasses at the time of utterance. I don't know what Tunepal will think it's called if I try playing it on the squeezebox.Download Standard Podcast | 24 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Terry Hi Ho the Grinder (slip jig) | Here's a tune with a funny name. I learned it from a flute player with a less peculiar appellation, i.e. Harry Bradley. I recorded this on a mobile phone mp3 recording app (and a flute) and the end result seems to include some 78rpm type crackles. That may have been an option which I inadvertantly chose on the recording device.Download Standard Podcast | 8 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Peter Wyper’s Hornpipe | Here's a tune called Peter Wyper's hornpipe. It is named after one of the Brothers Wyper who is pictured above. I had intended posting a smaller brace of Wypers but couldn't find the shrink button to resize the photo. You could look at the photo on a smartphone screen to make it small but I think the text would go all exiguous at the same time.Download Standard Podcast | 4 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Collier’s Reel | Here's a tune which as was correctly pointed out to me, I had forgotten to post up to now. I've played it on a poor, old and sick Rudall flute. I had even taken a picture of the flute but it's been so long since I've posted a tune here that I've forgotten how to include a photo (or else this site has forgotten how to have photos posted on it). The flute can't remember how to play bottom Ds yet. I'll be leaving it into a flute hospital in Galway shortly - maybe a bit of hypnosis from beyond the Pale will remind it of this particular alphabetic bark.Download Standard Podcasts | 13 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Knocknagow (jig) | Here's a tune I was asked a while ago to play. I've always been a bit allergic to this tune - I'm not sure why - I think something bad like the house falling down happened the last time I played it and that left a bit of an impression which didn't please me too much. It's a good tune all the same. I think it's really 2 jigs joined together. I'm away to stand outside for a while in case this house isn't up to the Knocknagow test.Download Standard Podcasts | 26 4 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Do you want any more? (jig) | I think this is also called The Collier's Jig. There's a collier's reel too which has the same general selection if notes in it. I'll post it on the site if it's not already here. I've been reminded a couple of times lately that some people are finding some use for some of the tunes on this site so I thought I'd try to add one or two more. It remains to be seen whether they'll fall into the useful category or otherwise. I have a couple of requested tunes still to post as well. I'm just being delayed by not knowing them and almost never having a flute closer that about 20 feet away. If I attended to the latter matter then my chance of sorting the former should increase accordingly.Download Standard Podcast | 6 2 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Tonn Teine (reel) | Here's the one that goes with the other two (Paddy O'Brien tunes I posted a while ago). I've just been reminded that I missed this one. I hope late is better than never.Download Standard Podcast | 20 11 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Trip to Nenagh (reel) | Here's a reel I've just been asked to play. It was composed by Sean Ryan. I found a couple of written versions on the web and this effort is sort of a cross between both and neither of them. Sorry if some (or most) of the notes are a bit on the fuzzy side. I found some ready salted crisps just before I found the notes for the tune.Download Standard Podcast | 16 11 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Cow that ate the Blanket (reel) | I think there's also a jig with this name - or is that 'the milker that masticated the mattress' ?Download Standard Podcast | 12 11 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Shamrock Hill (reel) | Here's a tune I never knew the name of until the arrival of the magic tune finding machine http://tunepal.org/tunepal/index.php. I see that people now even have telephones with this facility on them. If someone sneezes at a session these days there's likely to be an iphonophile who will be try to identify the sneeze as some polka or other. Any extraneous noises in this recording have passed without being interpreted as anything other than normal noise - any other noises are supposed to be the tune.Download Standard Podcast | 5 10 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Glenside Cottage (reel) | Here's a tune I think I learned from a recording of Jackie Daly. It is also in Breathnach's Ceol Rince na hÉireann (vol 2) where the version is the same but for one note in the second part (answsers on a postcard to ...)Download Standard Podcast | 21 8 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Iniscealtra (reel) | Here's another Paddy O'Brien reel which goes with the previous one though usually before it and another one rather than after it and before another one which isn't the same 'another one' I referred to on another part of this sentence just before now - I hope that all makes sense. All these tunes and information about them and Paddy O'Brien are to be found in an excellent compilation which is available from this site: http://www.paddyobrienbook.com/Download Standard Podcast | 8 8 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ormond Sound (reel) | Here's a reel composed by Paddy O'Brien. It is often played after two others in a set. I don't know the other ones either.Download Standard Podcast | 30 7 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ambrose Moloney’s | Here's a great reel for the flute. I'm sure I stole it from somewhere but the scene of that particular theft is now out of reach of my memory.Download Standard Podcast | 11 7 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Sailor’s Cravat (reel) | I've been at around 3 sessions in as many months and this tune was played at 2 of them (albeit by the same person). According to my statistical analysis this tune is therefore played at 66.66666% of all sessions. I'm afraid that the flute here sounds a bit like it has a cravat stuck up it somewhere; possibly with a maritime person attached.Download Standard Podcast | 7 7 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jenny Picking Cockles (2) - Reel | Sorry for the lack of tunes in the last while. I gave up playing for a while - as I sometimes do - and have only played the flute 4 times this year. The perenthesised '2' in the title here doesn't doesn't refer to the modesty of Jenny's shellflsh harvest target but just to the fact that there's already another tune with this name on the site.Download Standard Podcast | 18 4 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Humours of Ballyconnell (hornpipe) | Here's a new post after a very long gap. I couldn't remember where I left the internet. I was sent an mp3 file of someone playing this tune far better that it is played here. I know that Séan Keane recorded it at some stage and hear it from time to time in sessions but I can't remember exactly how it goes. I found a transcription in the bit of the internet referred to below. I'm afraid I've lost / mis-ordered a few notes during the eye to mouth process but here's an approximation - hopefully enough to get a more accurate and diciplined person started learning the tune. http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/2748Download Standard Podcast | 12 1 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Na Ceannabháin Bhána (slip jig) | Here's a slip jig which is really the tune of a song. I think I have a CD somewhere including a recording of Séamus Ennis singing the song but it has been hidden somewhere more obscure than the side of the sofa by a young child. I've had to rely on memory therefore for the way the tune goes. The title means something like "The fair haired Canavans".Download Standard Podcast | 18 12 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Turnpike Gate (reel) | I'm not sure I've ever seen a turnpike gate so I'm not sure what qualities one might have to get a reel named after it. Anyway, here's a tune called after such a gate.Download Standard Podcasts | 30 10 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Home Ruler (hornpipe) | Here's another request from long ago. I don't think the tune's title refers to a domestic measuring tool.Download Standard Podcast | 29 10 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Mills are Grinding (reel) | I was asked back in August to play this tune. I've at least managed it before October ended. The flute hasn't forgiven me for spending a lot of the last hour playing a miniature version of itself (I think baby flutes have a special name but I'm always getting the 'cc's and 'll's confused in the spelling) and blowing into a big flute has proved difficcullt - (it's happenned again only worse). Anyway, thanks Mary for telling me about this tune on 2nd August, and I hope it sounds OK.Download Standard Podcast | 28 10 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Charlie Lennon’s Number 4 (reel) | I was asked to record this tune so here it is, only a few days late. I've always just known this tune from afar so if it sounds like I'm a bit unfamiliar with its finer points (like the notes and stuff like that) then that's probably just because I am. Like most of CL's tunes, it's a fine piece of music and might be strong enough to emerge intact from my mangling.Download Standard Podcast | 17 10 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Hunter’s Purse (reel) | Here's a popular reel - so popular that it has taken me 3 years to think of it.Download Standard Podcasts | 11 10 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jackson’s jig | I've been laptopless for a while so have hadn't been able to post any tunes. I now have a new laptop and it and an old flute have combined to record this not so new jig. I'm not used to the recording level on the new computer so this post may only be audible to canine creatures. Maybe they can be persuaded to bark a louder version out if necessary.Download Standard Podcast | 5 10 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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John McHugh’s Jig | Here's a nice jig. I can't type any more as I can hear a baby stirrng; a baby who cares little about this site and the words and notes thereon.Download Standard Podcast | 14 8 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Torn Jacket (reel) | I've finally got around to looking at a couple of requests to record tunes. This is the only one I've got around to playing though. It's also the only torn jacket I've given any attention to although I seem to have several, the holes in which heavily outnumber the arms I can find to put through them.Download Standard Podcast | 4 8 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Lad O’Beirne’s reel | Here's a tune I was asked to play. It is named after the great Sligo fiddle player whose name escapes me just now.Download Standard Podcast | 23 7 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mary O’ the Wisp (reel) | This isn't really a flute tune. It comes from the fiddle playing of Francie Byrne from Kilcar, Co. Donegal.Download Standard Podcast | 18 7 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Castlemahon Lasses (reel) | All I know about this tune is what I read about it in Ceol Rince na hÉireann vol 5. It says there that the fiddler James McEnery composed it. I hope I'm not decomposing it too much here.Download Standard Podcast | 6 7 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dúlamán na Binne Buidhe (highland) | The title of this tune (and song of the same name) translates as "The Seaweed of the Yellow Cliff". - a tune caught between a wrack and a hard place perhaps. There are a few versions of this tune but I could only think of this one just now. I still have to think of the other tunes which are on my list to play here but my thought processes are running very slow these days.Download Standard Podcast | 12 6 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Con Cassidy’s Highland | Here's a tune I stole from a recording of Con Cassidy. I don't know much about it, except for what the notes are. I suppose that's a start.Download Standard Podcast | 31 5 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Gurney’s Favourite (jig) | Here's a jig I heard on a recording of Michael Gorman. It's called Guiry's favourite in O'Neill's. I was a bit distracted by an infant with a new set of noisy birthday presents but hopefully the tune recovers sufficiently frequently to make it possible to pick up.Download Standard Podcast | 30 5 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Lads of Laois (reel) | I'm a bit behind on recording tunes at the moment. I'm even behind with being behind with things. I think that's what's behind the delays. Anyway. I was asked for "The Lads of Laois", so here it is / they are, unleashed. I think I was asked for a nice version. I never really had a nice version so I had to record a nasty one. I listened back to the start of this recording through my computer's speakers and it sounded as if the tune was being played underwater on a trombone but maybe once it has been hung out on the web for a while it'll dry out a bit. I'll record the other tunes on my list once I find the list.Download Standard Podcast | 8 5 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Higgins’ Hornpipe | I've just been asked to play this tune so here it is. I'm not too sure how reliable this version is but it is maybe a bit closer to the version common in Ireland than the version on another website near you. I think it mightn't originally be an Irish tune so maybe the funny version is the normal version where the funny version comes from and the normal version is maybe ... etc. This is also known as "The Cliff Hornpipe". Whether that's the Cliff of "Summer Holiday" fame, I don't know.Download Standard Podcast | 22 4 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bill Malley’s Reel | I was asked a while ago to play this. I think I've already played it under a different name but I'm happy enough to post it with this name and look like I know more tunes than I really do. I can't remember what the other name I called it was so this is probably the one I'll use in future.Download Standard Podcast | 18 4 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mulqueeny’s Hornpipe | Here's one I wasn't asked to play. I wasn't asked not to play it either so as it doesn't seem to be here already I thought I'd give it a go. I think I was half the age I am now when I last played this tune and if I live to be twice the age I am now I'll either have too few teeth or too much sense to play it again. There's a touch of a farting in the bath sound about it. Maybe it's more of a windpipe than a hornpipe.Download Standard Podcast | 13 4 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Johnny Cope (hornpipe) | Here a very long hornpipe which I've been asked to play. I maybe played it a bit too fast the second time around but as it has so many parts I had to rush to finish it before the shops shut. (This version is vaguely like the one in Ceol Rince na hÉireann Vol. 3 - No. 208)Download Standard Podcast | 13 4 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Bantry Lasses (reel) | I had to look this one up in "The Book" when asked tp post it. I found it in O'Neill's Dance Music of Ireland, 1001 Gems (No. 469). I had just previously found "The Book" on the sideboard by the door into the kitchen. There is some audible dissent in the background but O'Neill was from Bantry so I'd trust this version OK despite the critical opinion which is to the fore in parts of this recording.Download Standard Podcast | 3 4 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Battering Ram (jig) | I found a 'please play the battering ram' email so here's said man-ewe (not Man U which I believe is a soccer team). This rendition is more sheepish than extraordinary but most of the notes are there.Download Standard Podcasts | 14 3 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Song of the Chanter (march) | I was asked to record this tune so here it is. I don't know what key it should be in. Here's a go at it in D minor and then A minor. I heard something once about dropping a piano down a coal shaft and getting A flat minor.Download Standard Podcast | 27 2 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Iron Man (highland / strathspey) | There's a character in The Magic Roundabout called Mr. Rusty. I fear that my Homme de Fer may have become a Fear Meirgeach himself.Download Standard Podcast | 22 2 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Jolly Seven (reel) | Here's a Paddy O'Brien reel (I think). Instead of a jolly seven here I think I have a fairly happy seven and a mildly miffed number 8. The overall recording quality is a bit dodgy here and the sound of the sean nós shouting infant in the background maybe doesn't help things too much (no infants were harmed in the making of this post).Download Standard Podcast | 20 2 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Cois Abhann na Séad (slow air) | I can't think of any quick tunes at the moment so here's a slow one. I want to spell this "Cois Abhainn na Seod" but forces I don't understand take me to the spelling I used instead. This is a song air which comes from Cúil Aodha in Co. Cork. I probably have it all wrong but I never go to Cork so I should be safe from close quarter retribution at least. (The title in English is "Beside the River of Gems / Jewels - I know how to spell that anywaieieieiy).Download Standard Podcast | 31 1 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Pigeon on the Gate (reel) | I just got an email from a pigeon fancier, or at least someone who wanted me to post this tune. So here's my pigeon-post, or maybe pigeon on the gatepost. I'm surprised not to have recorded a pigeon on the gate to date, but better late than never at any rate.Download Standard Podcast | 31 1 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Small Hills of Offaly (reel) | Here's a reel which I think Paddy O'Brien (from Smallhillsville) composed. The hills may be small but they seemed to take an age to upload onto this site. They must be the wrong shape for internet pipes. I know little of hills and tend not to go anywhere more topographically elevated than upstairs in a not too tall house in a low down town. I hope the tune's shape hasn't been too distorted, either by its journey to the web, or by its time spent in my mildly mangled music head.Download Standard Podcast | 23 1 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Aggie Whyte’s Reel | I've finally got round to playing another tune. I stole my wife's flute to play it as I can't remember where I left my own. The fact that this recording sounds like it was made in a sewer is no reflection on the flute. The recording wasn't made in a sewer; I'd never bring someone else's instrument into such an environment. Now I come to think of it, the same flute was once found in a wheelie bin after a burglary.Download Standard Podcast | 16 1 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Game of Love (reel) | Here's a tune I was asked to play. Some people associate this time of year with Yule logs. I appear just to have a backlog but this will hopefully have removed at least a sawtooth's fill from it. One reason I'm so slow about posting tunes these days is that I can't remember the names of any more of them. I got this one by asking Mr.Google about the name I was given. He seems to call it 'The Girls of Farranfore'.Download Standard Podcast | 2 1 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Father Tom’s Wager (jig) | Here's a jig about a betting Priest, or a Priestly bet. I don't know how he fared in the gamble but the jig flutters on to this day. There are a few versions of this knocking about. This is more or less like the one in O'Neill's Dance Music of Ireland.Download Standard Podcast | 22 12 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Fig For a Kiss (slip jig) | Here's a slip jig which I was asked to post here. It's been so long since I posted anything that the requestor has probably forgotten requesting it. I don't know whether you need a special type of fig for a kiss; "can I have a fig please; one of those ones you use for ... ?" and if so is it the same sort which helps with the digestive processes. Maybe just typing this little 'f' word will ease the blockage in my tune posting pipeline. I must go now and post some Santa cards.Download Standard Podcast | 19 12 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Little Stack of Wheat (hornpipe) | Here's a tune I've been asked to play. I think there are various cereal crops piled up in hornpipe names. In these straitened times maybe a little stack is the most appropriate choice for the days that are in it ... innit'?Download Standard Podcast | 28 11 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Mist on the Mountain (jig) | I've been asked to play this one so here it is. There's a tune call "snow on the hills" a few posts down. This one is continuing the theme but maybe has more to do with Kagools than with skis.Download Standard Podcast | 20 11 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Tory Island (reel) | Here's a reel which is also called "Murphy's Hound". I'm not sure how it got these two names or what the connection may be between them. Something to do with the Isle of Dogs maybe, though as one island is in the Thames and the other in the Atlantic, I may well be barking up the wrong tree entirely.Download Standard Podcast | 17 11 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Anything for John-Joe? (reel) | The question mark is part of the title, not an indication of doubt about what the title is. Having said (or typed) that, I'm not sure whether said question mark should be in the title. Maybe I should have typed (or written) 'Anything for John-Joe??'. I'm not too sure about the hyphen either. Hopefully the tune is more straightforward???Download Standard Podcast | 10 11 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Snow on the Hills (reel) | The recent weather which, according to the radio person, is the worst and snowiest since the last time we were told it was the worst since bad weather started to be bad and to be recorded as such, has reminded me that I was asked to post this tune. I didn't know it so here's just a rough guess as to what the dots at www.snowonthehills.org (http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/8535) say it goes like.Download Standard Podcasts | 30 10 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Eavesdropper (jig) | Here's a tune I overheard someone asking for. I've a couple more to do too and I'll get around to them as soon as I find where I tied the knot in my hankerchief.Download Standard Podcasts | 27 10 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dinny O’Brien’s Reel | I dinny play this before 'cause I dinny know it right. Chance I still donny but here's a try. (See CRÉ 3 uimh.145 for more reliable version.)Download Standard Podcast | 17 10 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Hawthorn (slip jig) | Here's a wee tune I stole out of Ceol Rince na hÉireann 3 (uimhir 57). I know it's meant to be bad luck stealing or interfering with thorn bushes in the wild. Hopefully na daoine beaga don't take such a dim view of thorn thefts from tomes.Download Standard Podcast | 11 10 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Mathematician (hornpipe) | 1 + 1 = ????? Never could add up (or hit a high 'A' - worried about hiatus and all that stuff).Download Standard Podcasts | 27 9 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Top it Off (slip jig) | Here's a slip jig. It's maybe more of a slip shod in this incarnation. It's a good tune for anyone with a memory and a set of pipes. I have neither but tried to make do all the same.Download Standard Podcast | 27 9 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Four Courts (reel) | I was asked to play this one so long ago that I nearly forgot but here it is; caught just in time. I used to think the title of this tune has something to do with petrol stations. I then learned a bit (a very little bit) about spelling. Any quasi-judicial activitles that used to occur round here tended to be located at the back of petrol stations rather than in front of them in any case.Download Standard Podcast | 19 9 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Laddy Redican’s (reel) | I think this is also called the "Forget-me-not". Any notion of a sieve-for brains like playing a tune with a name like that doesn't seem right somehow so I'll just keep calling it Redican's.Download Standard Podcast | 7 9 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Moneymusk (highland) | There are lots of versions of this highland. This is in danger of sounding like none of them but it is an attempt to at least resemble a version I heard on a recording of the fiddle player Jimmy Lyons from Teelin, Co. Donegal. It's far less fiddly on the fiddle than the flute. If playing it in A is too annoying, just drop it down to G. The flute seems to like it there but as someone went to the trouble of making a G# key for my flute, I thought I should go to the trouble of pressing it the odd time.Download Standard Podcast | 6 9 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Follow me Down (reel) | I haven't had many chances to post tunes lately and this one was a bit of a rushed job. Any sound of a screaming baby in the background is hopefully a reflection on his distaste for bedtime rather than for my playing. Sorry; who am I trying to kid? I've stopped playing now and the baby is now dreaming sweet dreams (of daddies who don't play flutes perhaps).Download Standard Podcast | 3 9 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Lazy Dog Highland | This one used to be played by Con Cassidy. I should maybe let lazy dogs lie and not try to rush them. The tune bit me in a few places on this occasion for not following that advice but time constraints and all that these days ... (25/08/08 - apologies - this isn't the Lazy Dog Highland - Marin is right. When I get time I will get this sorted out. The dog looks sort of comfortable here though).Download Standard Podcast | 23 8 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Willie Coleman’s Jig | I was asked to play this a while ago but haven't had much of a chance to play anything lately. The request referred to the "lovely flowing style" of a certain well known flute player. I'm afraid I can only do stumbling but the tune can still hopefully be learned from here.Download Standard Podcast | 22 8 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Sunset (hornpipe-ish) | Here's a tune from a list of ones I was asked to play. I learned it years ago as the "Flying Rockets" / "Robert Emmett's Flying Spaceship". As is the case with sunsets (I think they require the sun to be in the sky at the start of the setting process), I haven't heared tell of this tune for a long time. I hope I've remembered most of the notes.Download Standard Podcast | 9 8 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Connolly’s Barndance | I think I have another version of this tune posted here. In a moment of inspiration I called it "Barndance". That moment of inspiration occurred at 2 o'clock on a Sunday morning after many, many hours in a pub. Hopefully this version is slightly less "inspired" (though it's still a bit shabby in parts).Download Standard Podcast | 8 8 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Star of Munster (reel) | Here's one I forgot about. Maybe I forgot too much about.Download Standard Podcast | 8 8 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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O’Mahony’s Jig | I'm sure nobody was wondering what it sounds like when a person plays a jig they don't know while looking out at a p*****g wet August afternoon. Just on the off chance that anyone was ...Download Standard Podcast | 1 8 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Hinchey’s Delight (jig) | I've seen this tune with a "Hinch" and also with a "Hench". I was never a good henchman so I'll stick with i before eDownload Standard Podcasts | 24 7 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Rolling Wave (jig) | Here's a tune which I found lurking amongst the ones which I must have uploaded at some stage. I don't know why I never posted this one and I'm too much of a coward to listen back to it to find out. I'll leave the mal de mer to others. There is a lovely tune called "The Rolling Wave". I hope this is like it but I'll not bet on it.Download Standard Podcast | 21 7 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sonny’s Return (Paddy Lynn’s Delight) - reel | Here's a tune which has the same number of names as it has parts. It may also have other names I don't know about.Download Standard Podcasts | 19 7 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Cat’s Rambles (jig) | There's a jig called "Kitty's Rambles" / "The Rambles of Kitty" (depending on which form of the genitive case is to the fore) but this one is nothing like it, apart from having the same time signature, structure and almost the same name. I've never seen this one referred to as "The Rambles of Cat" but I have seen "Whelan's Old Sow" (but not "The Old Sow of Whelan") pinned to it. Neither tunes' names nor names of tunes ever made much sense to me. Hopefully this cat's / Kit's / whatever you please sir's, apostrophised journey won't lead to an 'astrophe.Download Standard Podcast | 16 7 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Love at the Endings (reel) | Here's a reel composed by Edward V Reavy. I hope I haven't decomposed it too much here.Download Standard Podcast | 14 7 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Glen Road To Carrick (reel) | Here's a version of a popular reel from South West Donegal. There's at least one other version of this tune and once I've got over the trauma of trying to remember this one I'll try to remember it too. I've put 2 tunes on today as it being the twelfth of July, there are lots of other flute players and their friends clogging the streets of Belfast and causing businesses and places of entertainment to close. This gives me a lot of time to spend in the house this sunny Saturday.Download Standard Podcast | 12 7 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Morning Thrush (reel) | I was asked to play this reel and here's my attempt to oblige. Séamus Ennis's father wrote the tune and there's a great rendition of Séamus playing available on a CD. I think youtube even has a video of the same performance. My attempt at picking through the tune is far from what the real thing is but at least it's in 'D'. (I had to find some good point to refer to).Download Standard Podcast | 12 7 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Brian O’Lynn (jig) | This is a fairly common tune. I'm sorry if it appears hurried in places but I was getting withering looks from a baby while I played it and that put me off a bit.Download Standard Podcasts | 9 7 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Tripping Up The Stairs (jig) | Here's a very popular jig which I was asked to play. It's especially popular among people who are learning to play the flute or the tin whistle. Stair carpets have a lesser regard for it.Download Standard Podcast | 6 7 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Colonel Frazer’s Reel | I've been asked to play this one so here it is. There are lots of versions of it and I'm never sure which one is closest to a standard one. I'll not guarantee than this effort will make people any the wiser as to the answer to that question.Download Standard Podcast | 5 7 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Beauty Spot (reel) | As with a lot of apparently simple tunes, there are lots of variations of this reel. This is in danger of not being any of them.Download Standard Podcast | 25 6 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Stack of Barley (hornpipe) | Here's a very common hornpipe. I'm sorry about the sound. I listened back to it (I normally don't) and it sounds as if I recorded it in a particularly cavernous public lavatory. May it was the same one in which some 1970s record companies used to record their traditional music LPs.Download Standard Podcasts | 23 6 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Stage Hornpipe | I've been asked to try this one. Well, at least I tried. I sort of learned it once off a Michael Coleman record but I don't have that record any more so I'm relying on memory; never a wise move in my case.Download Standard Podcast | 20 6 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Monaghan Jig | Maybe safer with the twig if time is an issue.Download Standard Podcasts | 16 6 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Antrim Rose (reel) | Here's yet another reel. It differs from the others which I've posted in that it is called "The Antrim Rose" while they are not. I am currently sitting in said county with a thorny, fragrant flower of the genus rosa within 8 feet of me. I don't think that has anything to do with this choice of tune though. There are plenty of other things even closer to hand than roses but I'm not about to play "The Dirty Mug".Download Standard Podcasts | 14 6 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Colonel Rodney’s Reel | I'm sorry about the clicky G# key in this one. I think my fingers may need a drop oil too.Download Standard Podcast | 8 6 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Tempest (reel) | Here's a slightly dry-mouthed and dry-fluted go at "The Tempest". My mouth is now so dry after playing it that I can't even type any more nonsense about it.Download Standard Podcast | 1 6 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Flowing Bowl (reel) | Here's one I was asked for. For some reason (maybe because I almost never go out playing) I haven't heard this tune for a while so this version mightn't be very up to date. It may have a chance of being recognised as at least a relative of the "Flowing Bowl" which does get played by people who do go out.Download Standard Podcast | 30 5 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Hanley’s Tweed (reel) | I've recently been reminded of this one. I never knew its name until about ten minutes ago. Maybe in another ten minutes' time I'll know the notes as well. I think Paddy O'Brien wrote it. It was probably a lovely tune when it left his fingers first ... like they say in Belfast about the Titanic - "it was all right when it left here".Download Standard Podcast | 22 5 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Sailor’s Hornpipe | I don't know that I've ever played this tune before but I've been asked for it so here is an attempt. I'm more of a terra firma person myself but I hope this maritime melody has survived my mal de mer. I've put the apostrophe before the last "s" thinking that this tune was the property of a single salt.Download Standard Podcasts | 17 5 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ríl Gan Ainm | I know there is a name out there somewhere for this reel so I'll not write a whole pile on nonsense just now about the lack of one as I'll probably only have to change it soon anyway.Download Standard Podcasts | 16 5 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The High Level Hornpipe | Here's a tune which I think is named after a bridge. Talking of bridges, I think I learned this on the fiddle in B flat. My fingers seem unwilling to coax this tune out of a 2 keyed flute in that key so here it is in C. I'm not sure whether C belongs to it but that's how it came out this time.Download Standard Podcast | 9 5 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Molly on the Shore (reel) | Here's one I've been asked to record. I had to look it up and I'm a bit uncertain of ho it goes. This version is probably sufficiently washed-up to at least have some shore connections anyway.Download Standard Podcast | 4 5 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Paddy Kelly’s Reel | Here's one for flutes with flats. It's a bit vague here as per usual but it's a nice wee tune.Download Standard Podcast | 1 5 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Independent Hornpipe | This is one I was asked to play. I don't know whether the version of the first part that goes up to a high 'C' is the normal one or whether the more land-based one rules the waves or waves at those who rule the land. I think I heard this tune from a recording of Leo Rowsome who as Rí na bPíobairí ruled over something himself. If anyone listening is fussy about tune versions then this particular one will probably send them straight to www.vexed.com. Hopefully most other people will either like or ignore as they prefer.Download Standard Podcast | 30 4 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mullingar Lea | As usual the playing here is a bit vague. The tune just occurred to me so I thought I'd play it while the sausages were cooking. They're done now - probably about as half-baked as this recording.Download Standard Podcast | 26 4 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Ivy Leaf (reel) | Here's a reel which I was asked to play. I'm not writing a disclaimer with the "Iwas asked to play" bit. It's just that I'm so glad to have been asked that I can't help but mention the asking in the posting. I used to think this was a new fangled sort of a tune but the likes of Willie Clancy played it and Francis O'Neill has it in his collection from 1907 (I missed the centenary balloons anuraidh). Here's my Friday evening go at it anyway. (The name makes me think of taking leaves intravenously. I've (y) more chance of taking leave of my ....).Download Standard Podcasts | 25 4 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bunker Hill (reel) | I've been asked to play this. Having tried to play it I think I know why it I never did before now (I think it might be awkward on the flute). I couldn't even work out what the first note ought to be. I don't think I have enough of a bunker mentality. Anyway, here's a sort of run at it. I hope there are only 3 parts in the tune. That's certainly all there are here. Maybe this rendition will offend someone out there into learning the tune properly. I'm away out now to get wet and educated.Download Standard Podcast | 24 4 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Langstrom’s Pony | Here's another tune I was asked to post. Posting ponies; is that like Pony Express are are they just post ponies? Anyway, I'm never too sure of the first part but that wasn't the focus of the query to which I'm trying to respond here. I hope I haven't forgotten about any parts either. It's a good job that the latter bits (another equine apparatus related term) hadn't too many low notes as on finishing the tune I noticed that my foot joint (hoof?) had fallen off. I hope that the tune is OK, though, and promise that no animals were hurt in the recording of it.Download Standard Podcasts | 22 4 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Mooncoin | Here's a fiddle tune. The flute's only really a fiddle with more holes and fewer strings so it's probably acceptable to play fiddle tunes on it. It even starts with the same letter. I vaguely remember being in a group once, many years ago, and "Mooncoin" was the polite one of the two names it had. That's my only connection with Mooncoins.Download Standard Podcast | 20 4 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Eel in the Sink | I've just been asked to play this tune so here is an attempt at it. I'm about to go and do the washing up now and am feeling a bit uneasy about what may be lurking under last night's saucepans. A few wriggling elvers may actually be quite an effective dish dirt dislodger though.Download Standard Podcasts | 13 4 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Merry Blacksmith | Here's a reel I was asked to play. My postings of late have been about as frequent as my blacksmith sightings, merry or otherwise, but being reminded of this tune at least stirred me into a brief flurry of activity. This particular tune is very suitable for the flute and provides ample opportunity for anvilesque hammering sounds on the D notes. On this occasion I seem to have let most of these opportunities slip by but at least it's nice to know that they will still be there the next time I try the tune.Download Standard Podcasts | 6 4 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Kiss me Kate (reel) | Here's a common reel. I thought I'd probably have played this one already but I didn't see it on the site. Maybe I called it by another name ("don't kiss me Kate" perhaps). I hope this version is OK. My recall facility for tunes has been a bit vague lately.Download Standard Podcast | 22 3 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Paddy Fahy’s Reel (1) | I'm not really the right person to be playing this great composer's tunes but as I'm the one who happens to be nearest this computer, I'll have to do. I've just called this No.1 to mark it out from any subsequent PF reels which I might play in future.Download Standard Podcast | 14 3 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Finnish Polka | This is yet another tardy response to a request to record a tune. I'm delighted to be asked to play specific tunes as it saves me having to think them up for myself. I had to look this one up on the internet as I didn't know it. I hope my dot to note transfer has allowed the tune to arrive without being too scathed. I think this tune is in B minor. My bad spelling allows me to think of digging in the ground for stripy, stingy things (stingy as in needle-arsed rather than tight arsed) but that's neither here nor there in the context of this tune. (Sorry for using the 'a' word).Download Standard Podcast | 8 3 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Enchanted Lady (reel) | Here's a fairly popular one, as are many enchanted things and persons.Download Standard Podcasts | 3 3 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Graf Spee (reel) | Here's another tune I was asked for. I've tried to oblige but I haven't quite got my sea legs. I might have been better scuttling this attempt.Download Standard Podcast | 1 3 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Trip To Cullenstown (reel) | Here's another request. I'm afraid I didn't recognise the name of the tune so I looked it up in www land. It sort of sounds familiar; mouth organs spring to mind (if that's a thing they can do) and by the end of the tune I thought I maybe knew the start. The version is at the mercy of whoever put it on the internet and whether he or she has the use of a reliable set of ears.Download Standard Podcast | 27 2 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Rakes of Clonmel | Here's a tune I was asked to play. I'm sorry it took me so long getting round to it. There are a few other tune requests that I'm currently in the process of taking even longer over. I played a three part version at the end of this recording. I've heard three parts from a few people, one being Paddy Canny. My problem regerding part 3 may be that in fact Paddy can whereas I canny play it but I thought I'd try anyway.Download Standard Podcast | 24 2 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Chicago Reel | I was asked to post this tune and am grateful to have been asked. I don't know why I hadn't thought of it myself. The setting here may be a bit dodgy but that may help to take the bad look off some of the other tunes I have played recently. I have another reel which I've been asked to play but I think I'll need to excavate a particular tape recording before I can chance the second half of it. I'm off now to look for a shovel.Download Standard Podcast | 17 2 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Martin Wynne’s No.1 (reel) | Here's another Martin Wynne thing. I'm not sure where I learned it but it seems to have been hovering about in quite a few places. If I can think of MW3 I'll have a got at it too.Download Standard Podcasts | 16 2 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Martin Wynne’s No.2 (reel) | I was asked ages ago to play this tune. I'm sorry it took so long but I always got distracted any time I set about playing it. I think this is the number two variety of Martin Wynne reel. I'll have to get round to recording at least one other so as to bring about a Wynne Wynne situation.Download Standard Podcast | 10 2 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Merry Harriers (reel) | I can't think of anything to write about this reel soDownload Standard Podcasts | 4 2 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Elizabeth Kelly’s Delight (Jig) | I can't promise that this tune will provoke as enthusiastic a reaction in other people as it did in Bess. Maybe she didn't get out much. I think it's a decent tune all the same which maybe doesn't get out enough either.Download Standard Podcasts | 2 2 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Boys of Ballynahinch (reel) | I was asked to play a reel of this name. I know there are several boys, and more than one Ballynahinch for that matter, in this country so I hope I have correctly identified all parties involved. If I have got the wrong tune please let me know and I'll try to mend my ways.Download Standard Podcast | 30 1 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Callan Lasses (Donnelly’s) - Reel | I've finally got around to playing this one which I was asked to play ages ago. The second part has always been a bit of a mystery to me. I hope I haven't made it even more of one with this effort. I think some of the notes are right and the order in which they appear is mroe or lses KO. (This tune had a helium fit earlier. If it is still all Pinky and Perky tomorrow I'll record it again. In the meantime I'd recommend slowdown software). (26/01/2008 - I've rerecorded the tune now. The only problem may be that I've forgotten some of it in the meantime).Download Standard Podcast | 25 1 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Providence Reel | This is my recollection of a fairly common reel. I was asked to record this one and I has taken me that long to do so that I can't even remember when I was asked. Maybe I wasn't asked at all. I think I have at least one other reel I'm meant to be putting on as well. Once I improve the organisational state of my life even to the lower reaches of chaos I will do the other tune too.Download Standard Podcast | 20 1 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Paddy Ryan’s Dream (2) | Here's another Paddy Ryan's Dream. Mr. Ryan must have been some sleeper. I think this one is close to the version that John Doherty used to call "Mooney's Reel".Download Standard Podcast | 14 1 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Paddy Ryan’s Dream (reel) | Here's my attempt to play this tune as requested to do so. I'm not too familiar with playing it on a flute and I fear that my playing may be straying in the direction of being the sort of dream Paddy Ryan, or anyone else for that matter, may get after consuming too much cheese at bedtime. I know a different version of this tune which I'll maybe try once this one I've woken up from this oneDownload Standard Podcast | 14 1 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Green Fields of Rosbeigh (aka The Kerryman) - Reel | This is a very popular reel which I just remembered I hadn't played on this site yet. I'm running out of popular tunes to play by this stage so when I do recall one I get a temporary happiness boost which is most welcome, especially on a dark Sunday evening like this one. I try not to remember tunes on Friday afternoons as happiness boosts on those occasions would send me over. I'm not sure about the two names this reel gets called by. I suppose when someone wasn't able to remember one of them then the other sprang to their mind as an obvious alternative. Download Standard Podcast | 13 1 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Good Morning to Your Nightcap (reel) | I think that daycaps, mornigcaps and other headgear have left me vexed and clueless regarding the name of this reel. It was recorded by Michael Coleman around 80 years ago. I don't think he had a name for it. I'm not sure where this name came out of but it conjures up some interesting images though I can't quite tell what they are of.Download Standard Podcasts | 11 1 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Reel of Rio | I was asked to record this which is a good thing as otherwise my memory wouldn't have stumbled upon it. Now my mental recall has been provoked, I hope this is the same Reel of Rio that got lost in it years ago. I don't know what the "Rio" in question is. Maybe its just that the name sounds better that "The Reel of Lagan".Download Standard Podcasts | 8 1 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Eddy Duffy’s Barndance | Here's the one which comes after the one which I haven't posted yet. This one and the one which isn't here are tunes from Fermanagh.Download Standard Podcast | 6 1 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Gan Ainm (Tom Busby’s Jig) | Here's another port gan ainm. Níl port le hainm fágtha agam faoin am seo. I seem to have run out of names of tunes to post so I'm going to have to start ganning ainms for the next while. I learned this jig from a piper who has an ainm - Robbie Hannan - but whose ainm for this jig escapes me just now. I was never sure just how the two parts of the tune got on with each other but sometimes I can sense an uneasy peace between them.Download Standard Podcast | 3 1 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Miss Ramsey’s (highland) | This tune is also played as a reel with an extra bit thrown in. I'm sorry about the mess up at the end. I suddenly realised that I had seven minutes to finish the tune, upload it, write a comment, digest my dinner (I suspect that may actually take days) and catch the start of the film which appears to be the only thing on TV tonight. I'll try the reel version soon.Download Standard Podcasts | 30 12 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Humours of Glendart (jig) | Here's my attempted response to a request for this tune. Like most old and popular tunes it has lots of versions. I hope that this is at least in some way related to some of them. The Christmas to New Year period is left my memory more muddled than usual. I hope to be more organised in 2008.Download Standard Podcast | 28 12 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The New Custom House (reel) | I never knew much about customs, new, knew, known or none in particular but here's a tune relating to them which I hope isn't too taxing.Download Standard Podcasts | 26 12 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Gan Ainm (jig) | Here's a nameless wonder. I don't suppose it would be very sociable of me to spend time posting tunes on the internet tomorrow, even ones with names, so here's my Happy Christmas effort. I hope Santa is kind to everyone and the tunes make it down the chimney without too much incident. Download Standard Podcast | 24 12 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Heathery Breeze (reel) | Here's a reel from my holidays. I don't play this very often so I hope my version has survived the years of neglect I've so lovingly administered to it. Download Standard Podcast | 23 12 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Smash the Windows (jig) | Here's a jig which I think is actually a single jig. I don't really understand all these different jig types so I'll just play the notes and leave the counting to those better qualified than I am. I think I first learned this tune from a book of the same name by Francie McPeake. This version is probably a bit different but as I can't find the book I can't be sure.Download Standard Podcast | 21 12 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Christmas Eve (reel) | I'm better at knowing what time it is than knowing what day or year may be around about me. As it is cold and often dark quite early, I suspect this tune to be fairly seasonal about now. My version of this tune becomes less reliable as the day approaches but people who really know the tune will hopefully still recognise this approximation. I'll try to think of something else to play between now and the Santa season's epicentre.Download Standard Podcast | 20 12 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Golden Keyboard (reel) | I can't really see what particular use could be made of a golden keyboard apart from for naming a tune after. It's a while since I either heard or played this tune (apart from about 3 minutes ago) so I can't guarantee that some keys on this particular board may be a bit more pig ironish than golden.Download Standard Podcast | 17 12 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Green Mountain (reel) | Sorry it's been so long since I posted a tune. The last thing I can remember is thinking that I was getting seasonal amnesia (I don't rightly know whether Santa will be able to fit it down the chimney, though). This tends to reduce the regularity of tune postings. Here's one anyway. I'm not sure whether the title refers to the said mountain's hue or to its being made of recycled hills. It certainly can seem on occasions to be a fairly recyclable reel. It's a nice one all the same and helps flute players to believe that tunes aren't all that hard after all.Download Standard Podcast | 15 12 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Top of Cork Road (jig) | Here's a jig I nicked off a record of Johnny Cronin and Joe Burke (that's Burke with a beard and banjo rather than a beard and box). The name is sometimes given to Father O'Flynn's jig as well.Download Standard Podcast | 9 12 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Cottage in the Grove (reel) | (Thanks Bernie for telling me the name of this tune). Here's a reel which is as un-ainm-ated as I feel today having been at an over-crowded, over-priced and over-cooked Christmas (it's barely even December) dinner last night. At least now it's just an over dinner without a hyphen in pursuit. Whatever about the name, I know enough about this tune to be able to say that I'm playing it in the key above its normal one. The present key is much easier on the flute than its G minor neighbour. I have to go out into the rain now and listen to the shouts of the man who drinks beside the bus stop. He appears very placid in good weather but anticyclones seem to upset him. Hopefully the bus won't be too long in arriving.Download Standard Podcasts | 8 12 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Knights of Saint Patrick (jig) | Here's my very belated response to a request to post this tune. I hope late turns out to be better than never.Download Standard Podcast | 8 12 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Smith’s Favourite (hornpipe) | This is the name this hornpipe is given in Alan's Irish Fiddler. I think I've heard other names, and none, for it too. It's a good tune for exercising the G# key. I've included instances of both hitting and missing it throughout the tune.Download Standard Podcasts | 3 12 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Francis John McGovern’s Reel | Here's a reel which I think has Fermanagh connections. If I knew about FJMcG I'd be more sure of this. I played the tune in a big, empty room so each note probably repeats itself about ten times. Just like my cooking.Download Standard Podcast | 1 12 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Maudabawn Chapel (reel) | Here's another tune I was asked to put on. One of my problems with playing this tune is that is seems to have far more notes than I do. Another is trying to identify what these notes are and in which order they ought to come. I tried looking at Reavy's book "Where The Shannon Rises" to see whether his version would shed any light on the matter but this just reinforced my view that none of his tunes are normally played the way he wrote them. Anyway, here's an attempt at an average of the myriad settings of this tune which tend to be lurking about the place.Download Standard Podcast | 27 11 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Her Long Hair Flowing Down Her Back (hornpipe) | Here's a tune which it was suggested I play. It was written by Junior Crehan. The tune is maybe a bit too melodic for the likes of me to play so I hope I haven't mangled it too much. I've often had rain flowing down my back but that doesn't normally inspire anything other than cursing.Download Standard Podcast | 24 11 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Darby the Driver (jig) | I was told this name for this tune by someone I sometimes trust. I'm not sure whether this is one of those occasions. I hope it's a nice jig whatever its name is.Download Standard Podcast | 23 11 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Twenty One Highland | The first part of this tune should really be played an octave lower on a fiddle, complete with nice growly bits. I'm afraid a flute is all I had to hand so this is the best I could do. I'm never sure how to end this tune on any instrument. Maybe not starting it would work.Download Standard Podcast | 20 11 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Ladies of Tullybardee (reel) | This is a John Doherty tune which is also known as the Monaghan Switch. There are a few versions on the go but this is the one which is stuck in my head at the moment. It's more or less the same as the version in the book "The Northern Fiddler".Download Standard Podcast | 17 11 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Barney Brannigan’s (slip jig) | I was asked to play this tune and am very grateful to have been reminded of it. I apologise if my evening's libatory recreations have blurred Barney's notes too much. There's a flute player from my town who recorded this tune in a more sober manner. If my version's vagueness is too vicissitudinal then verification could be found in the vicinity his CD. He is called Marcas. Oíche mhaith, Michael.Download Standard Podcast | 16 11 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Dispute at the Crossroads (reel) | This is a version of Dr. Gilbert's Reel. I could do with the services of the same Mr. Quack as my hearing, breathing and tuning are all away with it. I Think it's just what's known as a cold but I intend moaning about it all the same. Sorry if this sounds worse than normal. It's hard to sneeze and maintain in-tune-producing breaths down a flute at the same time. Maybe I should try dissolving the Lemsip rather than snorting it.Download Standard Podcast | 13 11 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Big Pat’s Reel | Comes from big cow's?Download Standard Podcasts | 11 11 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rakish Paddy (reel) | Here's a very popular reel. I don't know a wild pile about it. Download Standard Podcasts | 9 11 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Devil in the Kitchen (Highland) | I think I have one of these which helps me cook.Download Standard Podcasts | 8 11 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Flaxdresser (jig) | Here's a nice plain tune which shouldn't do anyone too much harm.Download Standard Podcasts | 7 11 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Tailor’s Twist | Here's a hornpipe I was asked to post here. It took me about ten minutes to put the flute together as I'm tired after being away for a few days. I do the travel thing very badly. If I can put myself together in ten days I'll be doing well. As for putting this tune together ...Download Standard Podcasts | 6 11 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Butcher’s March (jig) | A popular jig. I can't tell you much about it now as I have to rush off now.Download Standard Podcasts | 5 11 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Sandpiper (reel) | Related to the emery bard.Download Standard Podcasts | 3 11 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Anach Cuain (jig) | Here's a song turned into a jig. Sorry for the higgledy-pigglediness of the posts over the next few days. I'll tidy them up next week.Download Standard Podcasts | 1 11 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Humours of Tuaimgreine (hornpipe) | Here's a nice hornpipe from County Clare. Some nice things do come from that county, so I'm told.Download Standard Podcast | 30 10 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Woods of Old Limerick (jig) | Here's one I was asked for. I'm not too sure of the second part so I looked it up. I hope I didn't mess it up too. The tune itself should be nice enough and strong enough to survive the slight mangling I gave it.Download Standard Podcast | 28 10 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Is Trua Gan Peata an Mhaoir Agam | Here's a nice, simple reel which is really a song. I think I probably heard it on a recording of Michael Tubridy at some stage. I stole my wife's flute to play it here. There could be a slippery slope here somewhere.Download Standard Podcast | 27 10 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Factory Smoke (hornpipe) | I think this tune is also known as "The Brown Coffin". I thought of the first title, and hence the tune, when I went into the kitchen to check on my dinner and was greeted by acrid fumes which made my eyes feel like I was wearing contact lenses made from slithers of onion. Now that I have eaten the dinner the second title is starting to annoy me. I think this tune is much nicer than my cooking. I've moved it up one from the G minor key some people play it in.Download Standard Podcasts | 24 10 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Showman’s Fancy (hornpipe) | The first part of this tune seems to have about as many endings as prople who play it. It's a cheerful sort of tune for all that.Download Standard Podcast | 23 10 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Greencastle Hornpipe | Here's a melodic sort of a tune. It used to be the theme tune of the TG4 programme "Geantraí". It may well still be but it's on past my bedtime these days so I haven't seen it or heard its intro. for a while.Download Standard Podcast | 21 10 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Cocktail Reel | This might be related to Scotch Mary's tipple choices. It's definitely related to the Dublin Reel. I've heard this tune called "The Cock's Tail Reel" too. As for this rendition (very ordinary), I can't quite recall when I played it but I hope it isn't so bad as to be offensive.Download Standard Podcast | 20 10 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Scotch Mary (reel) | Ta CW for reminding me of this tune on C&F. I'm never too sure about C# vs. Cnat in pt.3 but I love this reel. As for Mary's taste in whiskey (or whisky) ... what's wrong with Power's or Jameson's? (apart from the paranoia they induce)Download Standard Podcasts | 19 10 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Maggie in the Woods (polka) | This was recorded by Tom Morrison in 1928 and probably by several other people since. Maggie may be in them and I'm note sure that I'm out of them yet myself. This is the 500th posting I've put on this site so I'm away for a lie down and to think of a few tunes for the next thousand.Download Standard Podcast | 19 10 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Lillies in the Field (reel) | I once heard someone I know describe 2 women as being standing like "frillies in a field" but I have had little exposure to paddock based arums. This is a fairly popular tune which seems happy to have as much or little done to it is one may prefer.Download Standard Podcasts | 18 10 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Good Natured Man | Here's a tune which seems to be going through my head a bit recently. I think this os because Raidió na Gaeltachta are using it as the theme music for their pick of the week show "Rogha na Seachtaine", which often seems to call out from my radio when I'm washing potatoes for dinner. With the soon to arrive winter here, the tap water will get colder and I'll get sore hands washing the spuds. Three months of crunching at gritty tubas awaits me if I'm to save my fingers aching with the cold.Download Standard Podcast | 17 10 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Shetland Fiddler | Here's the tune I used to hear at sessions all the time played along with Dinky Dorrian's. For some reason it and Mr. Dorrian's reel seem fairly absent from the sessions I hear these days. Sometimes absence makes the heart grow fonder. In my case it just makes my recollections of this, and of "Dinky's", grow vaguer. In any case, here what remains of my recollections of it. I'm sure www land contains some less time-bevaguened versions.Download Standard Podcasts | 16 10 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dinky’s ‘lite’ | The Dermis can be taken from the feline by various means. This one might be less painful (but you'd really have to ask Tiddles). 'E's between the 'A's in the second part seem the ease the journey a bit. Just a notion but it might sound normal enough in a crowded pub.Download Standard Podcast | 16 10 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dinky Dorrian’s Reel (Dinky’s) | Here's a reel which was released into the wild by Francie "Dearg" Byrne who was a fiddle player from Kilcar, Co. Donegal. It is often just known as "Dinky's". I was reminded of it by its being mentioned on the C&F flute forum today. I didn't know it was a hard tune until I tried to play it here. I think it is easier on a bowed flute with strings but it is probably quicker to practice it a bit on the flute than to go off and learn the fiddle just for this one tune. It's worth getting hold of RTÉ's CD "The Donegal Fiddle" to hear the late, great Mr. Byrne playing it.Download Standard Podcast | 15 10 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Ballykett Courthouse | Here's a single reel from Co. Clare. I've always been well behaved when in Co. Clare so all I know of this courthouse is that it has a reel named after it. I suspect it hasn't heard the clatter of a gavel for some time.Download Standard Podcast | 15 10 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dever The Dancer (slip jig) | I'm never quite sure the title of this tune refers to someone's name or is an instruction. It is a very popular tune and is on a lot of recordings. Packie Duignan recorded a particularly nice version of it.Download Standard Podcast | 14 10 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Lord Gordon’s Reel | This reel started out as a perfectly respectable 2 part creation but Michael Coleman threw a whole pile of other bits at it. He must of been either having a very bad or a very good day. Here's my attempt at remembering it.Download Standard Podcast | 13 10 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Congress Reel | I don't think I've recorded this one already. If I have then the previous attempt is buried in the oblivion which befits its qualities. This tune is probably usually played in something approaching A minor. It also seems to quite like being played a key up the ways so I've 'B' ten as well. I think that's as far along the alphabet as I'll venture today.Download Standard Podcast | 12 10 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Star Above the Garter | Here's a slide which gives its name to a great record of Juiia Clifford and Denis Murphy from Sliabh Luachra. The name may have other connotations too but I don't understand them, whatever they may be.Download Standard Podcast | 11 10 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Moving Cloud (reel) | Here's a tune I was asked to play. I haven't chanced it for a long time as the clouds in the sky above here seem to have forgotten how to move so this tune never seem to come to mind. It was composed, I think, by Neillidh Boyle who was a remarkable fiddle player from near Dunglow in Donegal. His birdsong impressions are equally as memorable as his tunes about his cumulus companions. I hope the tune survived my memory lapses and general inability to play at the moment.Download Standard Podcast | 9 10 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Boys of Portaferry (reel) | I don't know much about this one apart from how it goes (sort of).Download Standard Podcasts | 7 10 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Poll Ha’penny | I'm not sure what the name of this hornpipe refers to. I far too young to remember ha'pennies. The "Poll" sometimes manifests itself as a "Paul". That makes things even less clear to me.Download Standard Podcast | 6 10 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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John Byrne’s Jig | Brendán Breathnach got this jig from James Byrne's father John and included it in Ceol Rince na hÉireann vol. 2. That was very considerate of him.Download Standard Podcast | 5 10 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Tommy Peoples’ Reel | I know the title doesn't narrow down this tune's identity particularly well. Mind you, neither does "Gan Ainm" which is the other label I have for it. You can hear it played properly on a record that Tommy Peoples and Matt Molloy made some time ago.Download Standard Podcast | 3 10 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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O’Connell’s Trip to Parliament | Here's a popular reel. Mr. O'Connell's had his followers too, in places.Download Standard Podcast | 2 10 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Mossy Banks (reel) | This is probably more messy than mossy the way I play it but it's a good tune despite that.Download Standard Podcasts | 30 9 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jerry’s Beaver Hat | Here's a very popular jig. Thanks Mary for reminding me of it. I seem to be struggling a bit with it in places. I think this might just be my blackwood flute getting jealous of its new sibling.Download Standard Podcast | 30 9 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Contradiction Reel | This is really a fiddle tune but apart from the differences with strings, shape, holes, method of playing, sound and a few other things, a flute is just like a fiddle. I'm not sure whether this is really like a tune but it'll pass a couple of minutes finding out.Download Standard Podcast | 29 9 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Sally Gardens | Here's a very common tune. Don't try singing Yeats to this version.Download Standard Podcast | 29 9 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Stone in the Field (reel) | I think I'm getting used to this new flute now. I'm not quite so sure about being used to the recording levels to stop the Ps escaping from the MP3 files of it.Download Standard Podcast | 28 9 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Glencolmbcille Reel | Andy McGann called this as above. John Doherty called it "The Fantastic Reel". I think I should call it a day. I'll try again tomorrow. I'll call that Friday.Download Standard Podcast | 27 9 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Whinny Hills of Leitrim | Here's a slip jig. There are a few with this name, maybe not one for every hill in lovely Leitrim but at least two or three. I'll try to remember them. In the meantime I'd better go off and feed my hungry new flute with almond oil.Download Standard Podcast | 26 9 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Brendan Tonra’s Jig | Here's a nice jig from a fiddle player I met the only time I was ever in America. I'm playing it on a brand new flute here and I have also been eating chicken too recently. I'm not sure that that is a perfect set of circumstances for flute playing but I hope the tune is decipherable amidst the lathe whirring and the distressed clucking.Download Standard Podcast | 25 9 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Stay Another While | This tune has probably stayed too many whiles in its limbo place prior to my posting it now. As a result I can't remember how badly I played bits of it so I'll just apologise for it all.Download Standard Podcast | 24 9 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Humours of Tulla | Here are some humours. I hope you like them. Bye bye for now.Download Standard Podcast | 23 9 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Last Night’s Fun (2) | It was such a good night that it required two reels to do it justice.Download Standard Podcasts | 22 9 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Last Night’s Fun (1) | Here's a popular reel commemorating a recent evening's enjoyment.Download Standard Podcast | 21 9 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mrs. Creehan’s Reel | Here's a flute-friendly tune. I'm sure Mrs. C was very genial too.Download Standard Podcast | 20 9 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Sandmount | This is called "Mick Hand's Reel" on a Mary Bergin record. That's tantamount to a hand mount. Whatever all this amounts to it is a nice reel.Download Standard Podcast | 18 9 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Liverpool Hornpipe | This one has just raised its head inside my head for some reason so here it is before I forget it again.Download Standard Podcasts | 17 9 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Pretty Maggie Morrissey | Here's a fairly inoffensive sort of tune. That in itself might be reason enough for playing it.Download Standard Podcast | 16 9 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Old Wheels of the World | I still haven't got round to playing the new ones. They appear to be in the process of falling off at the moment so I'm maybe best leaving them to it.Download Standard Podcast | 15 9 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mama’s Pet (2) | Here's Mama's other pet. It think it is currently my pet Mama's Pet.Download Standard Podcast | 13 9 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mama’s Pet (1) | Here's one of Mama's pets. I know of at least one other so Mama must never have been lonely.Download Standard Podcast | 13 9 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Belfast Hornpipe | This is also known as the Sweep's hornpipe. Poor old Béal Feirste could do with a good brushing. Now that the whole town is a smokeless zone there are probably plenty of spare bristled implements with which to effect that very same cleanup.Download Standard Podcast | 12 9 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Tomeen O’Dea’s Reel (Ríl Thomáisín Uí Dheaghdha) | For such a simple reel there seem to be a lot of ways of playing the second part. I've had a go at a few of them here. It's a great tune for the flute.Download Standard Podcast | 10 9 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dillon’s Fancy (reel) | I don't know which Dillon liked this one - Bob, Thomas or the rabbit from the Magic Roundabout, but I admire his, her or its taste.Download Standard Podcast | 9 9 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ask My Father | Here's a 12/8 single jig. It's a sort of pipey thing but a flute can think that it is a pipe when necessary.Download Standard Podcast | 8 9 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Humours of Whiskey (2) | There seem to be quite a few tunes with this name. Most of them are slip jigs. I think I know what causes them to slip. It took me about ten minutes to get anything even resembling a tune out of my flute this morning. I'm sorry if this tune sounds excessively reluctant.Download Standard Podcast | 7 9 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Scowling Wife | Here's a reel I think I heard from James Byrne who is a great fiddle player from Donegal. I'm not sure what scowling looks like (I've led a charmed life) so apologies if the attached image is erroneously selected.Download Standard Podcasts | 5 9 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Scatter The Mud (jig) | Here's a jig which doesn't seem to get just as much playing as it used to. Maybe scattering mud has been superseded by slinging it. This version is fairly close to the one on O'Neill's book although my copy is very old and grubby and it can be hard to tell whether some of the black marks are notes or just scattered bits of dirt.Download Standard Podcast | 5 9 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Jolly Tinker | Here's a tune referring to a multi tasking person who can also be drunken, yellow and have daughters. I'm sure there there are more things to add to that list too.Download Standard Podcast | 4 9 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Otter’s Holt (reel) | Here's a popular reel. I've probably seen an otter as recently as I have played this reel until now and I hope the notes have more or less landed where they belong.Download Standard Podcast | 3 9 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Tansey’s Favourite | Here's a reel which shares part of its name with a well known flute player. I'll not say which part of the name applies. I might have played this one on my plastic flute but I'm not sure. I've been to Dublin and appear to have left most of my memory there.Download Standard Podcast | 2 9 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Crowley’s Reel (2) | This is probably cruelty to a Crowley but here's the second half of the pair anyway. I'm posting this in absentia (one of my favourite places) so it will probably be on the wrong side of the introduction for a day. I'm sure that all means nothing but I wanted to type it anyway. (This is another plastic flute experiment)Download Standard Podcasts | 1 9 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jenny’s Welcome to Charlie | Here's one I've been asked to play. I was never sure what to do with the first part (maybe play it on a fiddle) so I might be floundering a bit here. I hope I haven't mangled it too much. If I was Charlie and was welcomed by an attempt like mine here I wouldn't be too pleased with Jenny but I did try.Download Standard Podcast | 31 8 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Crowley’s Reel (1) | Here's a Crowley's reel. There are a few of them. Michael Coleman must have been a fan of Mr. Crowley as he recorded a few tunes named after him. I've played this one on my plastic flute. I hope Mr. Crowley doesn't mind.Download Standard Podcast | 31 8 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Reel of Sparks (Ríl na Drithleog) | I know that I heard this tune from the Donegal fiddle player James Byrne but I don't know for sure whether this is it's name. He does play one of this name so there's a chance I'm right. As for whether I remembered how it goes; who knows? I think it sort of goes like this. There's a record of James Byrne's playing which has this tune on it but I have it as an LP and my machine to making LPs sing has lost its voice and so I can't check.Download Standard Podcasts | 30 8 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Floating Crowbar | Here's a tune I was asked to play and used to hear in sessions all the time. Maybe that's got something to do with the fact that I used to go to sessions all the time. I made slightly heavy weather of it here. Maybe I should try playing the crowbar and floating the flute.Download Standard Podcast | 27 8 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Holy Land | Here's a common reel. I played it here on a plastic flute. I'm not sure whether playing reels into a computer using a plastic tube is really all that wholesome, or holy for that matter. I'm pleased with the flute, though.Download Standard Podcast | 26 8 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Scottish Hunt | Here's a nice thing, except if you're a fox. I suspect no foxes ever look at this site so I'll not be overly concerned about upsetting any of them.Download Standard Podcast | 25 8 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Big John’s Reel | Here's a fairly popular reel from Fermanagh which I heard on a record of Cathal McConnell. That's all I have to say on the matter.Download Standard Podcast | 24 8 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Steampacket | This reel is also known as "The Mountain Lark". Neither playing with packets of steam nor larking on mountains are particularly safe activities but playing this tune on a flute should be fairly harmless.Download Standard Podcast | 24 8 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Maids of Mitchelstown | Here's a reel which fairly popular and which I like despite never knowing whether E, F natural of F sharp should be in second part. Here's a go at it anyway.Download Standard Podcast | 23 8 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Gone For His Tea (reel) | Here's a nice reel which Michael Tubridy played on his LP "The Eagle's Whistle". I've been stealing a lot of tunes from that LP lately which is odd as I haven't heard it for at least ten years. I have it buried somewhere in my record collection which is, in turn, buried somewhere in my dust collection.Download Standard Podcast | 22 8 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Wheels of the World (jig) | There are world wheels of the reel variety but here are the ones in jig time. This jig can be found on one of Mary Bergin's records, among other places.Download Standard Podcast | 20 8 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Tie The Ribbons | I had intended to post a different tune but I must have forgotten to upload it and as a result it is languishing on my computer at home. I, on the other hand, am languishing somewhere else. Here's this tune instead. I think Bobby Casey used to play it.Download Standard Podcast | 20 8 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Josie McDermott’s (The Trip to Birmingham) | Here's a reel written by the great flute / whistle / saxophone player and singer Josie McDermott. I think it was called as above but I'm not totally sure. I'm sorry about the minor choking fit towards the end. I should really rerecord the tune but I have to go out before the shop shuts.Download Standard Podcasts | 19 8 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Billy McCormick’s Jig | Here's a jig which had this name put on it when it was put on "Kerry's Own" Paddy Cronin's LP. It was made into dots in Ceol Rince na hÉireann Vol. 3 (number 7). I don't think it's played all that often but it is a comfortable tune for playing on a flute.Download Standard Podcast | 18 8 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Paddy Breen’s Jig | Here's a nice jig (I have yet to admit to playing any horrible ones but I'm sure there are plenty of emetic melodies on this site) which comes from the tin whistle playing of Paddy Breen from Co. Clare. Michael Tubridy put it on his LP "The Eagle's Whistle". There's a recording of Paddy Breen to be got too, in case anyone is really keen. http://www.folktrax.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/menus/cassprogs/078.htm (26/09/2008 The link above doesn't work any more. This one does: http://web.archive.org/web/20020605035813/www.folktrax.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/menus/main.html A search on the page for 078 will then find the recording. It a fine recording of a great musician. I hope it is still available. The contact details on the site will hopefully lead you to it.)Download Standard Podcast | 17 8 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Crooked Road to Dublin | I might start using this road myself instead of the train which took 5 hours last Saturday to get there from Belfast. This is yet another popular reel which I hadn't remembered until now.Download Standard Podcasts | 16 8 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Wise Maid | Here's yet another one that got away. This is close to the version the box player Joe Cooley from Peterswell, Co.Galway, played. He mightn't have had a blocked left ear, though. I think it's either blocked with bits of forgotten tunes or else maybe that's were all the odd socks are. The stereo version of this reel is very popular in sessions.Download Standard Podcast | 14 8 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Laurel Tree | Here's another tune which I thought I must have recorded already but doesn't come up in a search of this site. I suppose it's like so many other things I think I've ever learned which don't come up in a search of my head either. I seem to remember this reel being quite pleasant and also quite popular in sessions.Download Standard Podcast | 13 8 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Fairy Reel | I did a search for "Fairy" on this site and nothing came back for it. I'll take that to mean that this is the first time I have posted this tune. It's a fairly popular fairy tune.Download Standard Podcast | 12 8 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Eddie Duffy’s Reel | Here's a reel which I think comes from Fermanagh. Eddie Duffy came from Fermanagh so that's who I'm associating the tune with. This is all a but tenuous but it might be right despite my best efforts.Download Standard Podcast | 11 8 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Apples in Winter | I was asked to post this popular jig so here it is. I've recently heard some people playing a couple of extra parts at the end of this tune. I get the impression that the only function of the other parts is to make those who play them feel pleased with themselves for being able to remember four bits all at once. As a two part jig I think it an excellent tune.Download Standard Podcast | 10 8 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Father Kelly’s (2) | I'm putting on a Father Kelly's (2) without first posting an FK's (1). I know that this is the wrong way to go about things and I also know that this tune isn't either of the tunes which I think really are called Father Kelly's. I saw this tune with the FK tag on it in a book. If anyone has another name for it, please let me know.Download Standard Podcast | 8 8 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Johnny “Watt” Henry’s (Níl sé Gan Ainm níos mó) | Thanks for the name, Harry. I'm glad it wasn't Nelly. I've been trying to be organised by recording tunes in advance and then posting them over athe subsequent days. This is OK when I have names for them but I've labelled this mp3 file as "ganainm17-18" and I can't really remember what it is. I suspect that it is a reel from which appears on pages 17 - 18 of the book "A Trip To Sligo". If I'm right then it's a good flute reel and the Trip to Sligo version comes from the playing of Colm O'Donnell (although I have neither access to the book or to a sound source to check). On the other hand it might just be Danny Boy or Nelly the Elephant. That mightn't be so bad either as I'm probably posting too many reels anyway.Download Standard Podcasts | 7 8 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Brendan Mulhare’s Reel | I've not much to say about this one. It's called by this name in the "Trip to Sligo" book. Some of it (the tune and / or the book) is fairly pleasant.Download Standard Podcast | 7 8 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Gorman’s Barndance (Jamesy Gannon’s) | Here's a barndance by way of a change from all the tunes that aren't barndances. This tune is called "Jamesy Gannon's Barndance" on a record of Michael Gorman, the Sligo fiddle player but then so are about half a dozen other tunes on the same recording. I've also heard this tune in more Northern climbs such as Donegal. Here it is in no geographical setting at all.Download Standard Podcast | 6 8 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Bellharbour Reel | Here's a popular reel. I've seen this reel called "Dillon's Reel" on www.thesession.org where someone has written that this isn't called the Bellharbour Reel. Wharever about its name, some of its notes are pleasant enough.Download Standard Podcast | 5 8 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Happy to Meet and Sorry to Part | Here's a good simple jig. As for the sentiment in the title; well ...Download Standard Podcast | 5 8 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Golden Eagle | Here's a nice hornpipe. The second part is supposed to have a couple of D sharps in it but my flute wasn't really convinced.Download Standard Podcast | 5 8 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Coachman’s Whip | Here's a tune that was probably not written by a horse. Very few are. In fact, it was definitely not written by a horse. It was written by Co. Galway flute player Vincent Broderick.Download Standard Podcast | 4 8 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Trim The Velvet | I put this on before but in company. I've just been asked to play it so here it is on its own. It's only about 9:00am which is a bit early for trimming velvet or anything more elaborate than toast or toenails but I did my poor best.Download Standard Podcast | 3 8 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Paddy Mills’ Fancy | Here's a reel from the late, great Paddy Mills from North Mayo.Download Standard Podcasts | 3 8 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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McFarley’s Reel | Here's a Donegal version of The Maids of Castlebar. A don't know whether there's a Mayo version of The Donegal Reel. I'll record The Maids of Castlebar as well when I get a chance so that the reference to McFarley's being a version of it makes some sort of sense.Download Standard Podcast | 2 8 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Setting Sun | Here's a popular and melodic jig which is called by this name in Ceol Rince na hÉireann 5. It must have been taken down a long time ago. I don't remember there having been a sun to set recently.Download Standard Podcast | 1 8 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Creel of Turf | Here's a popular jig dedicated to some semi fossilized plants which usually get thown on a fire.Download Standard Podcasts | 31 7 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Lass of Ballintra | Here's one which Seán McGuire played. It's reasonably flutable for all that.Download Standard Podcast | 31 7 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Toss The Feathers | Here's a very very popular reel. As for the activity described in the title, I know little of it. The limit of my experience of plumage related activities would be the odd unsuccessful attempt at ruffling.Download Standard Podcast | 30 7 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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John Doherty’s Cameronian Reel | The Donegal fiddle player John Doherty played a few tunes which he called "The Cameronian Reel", none of which are the normal one of that name. This one was also recorded by Michael Coleman at some stage but I can't remember what he called it. I've played the first part single here. It maybe ought to be double, or maybe I would have been better leaving both parts out completely.Download Standard Podcasts | 29 7 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Broken Lantern | I never had a name for this jig but it appears as "The Broken Lantern" in Ceol Rince na hÉireann vol. 5. This is more or less the version in that book too.Download Standard Podcast | 29 7 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Around The World For Sport | Here's a popular reel which is sometimes also called "The Sword in The Hand" - worth two in the bush.Download Standard Podcasts | 28 7 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Kitty in The Lane | If this playing of this reel sounds bad, I'm blaming a big toe infection. It's making tapping time very uncomfortable.Download Standard Podcast | 27 7 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Flower of The Flock | The name of this reel always reminds me of wallpaper. I suspect I'm missing the point but I see more walls than birds or other flocking creatures in my daily life.Download Standard Podcast | 27 7 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Miss McGuinness | Here's a reel which sounds like a few others but isn't any of them. It's a great tune for playing on the flute.Download Standard Podcasts | 26 7 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Green Fields of America | Here's a reel celebrating the colour (color) of the grass in the USA. Willie Clancy was one person who played this tune.Download Standard Podcast | 26 7 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Devils of Dublin | This reel seems to be a Sligo thing (recorded by Michael Coleman and his ilk). I'm not sure exactly which Baile Átha Cliath Beelzebubs are referred to in its title.Download Standard Podcast | 25 7 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Down The Back Lane | Here's a piping jig usually associated with Willie Clancy. (It may well not usually be associated with him at all but I couldn't think of anything else to write. Willie Clancy did play it, though).Download Standard Podcast | 23 7 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Navvy on The Shore | Here's a very flutish sort of reel. It's a good one for just blowing at and flapping the digits a bit.Download Standard Podcast | 23 7 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Old Hag You have Killed Me | Here's a piping jig which Willie Clancy and then the Bothy Band made popular. I'll not write anything about its name.Download Standard Podcasts | 23 7 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Humours of Westport | Here's a reel which is often in 'F'. I have it here in 'D' and 'G', either of which are a bit flutier. 'F' is often better for spelling a flute than playing one.Download Standard Podcast | 23 7 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Tommy Bhetty’s Waltz | Here's a waltz for a change. It comes from Fermanagh and goes more or less like this.Download Standard Podcasts | 22 7 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Swinging on the Gate | Here's a reel I was asked to play. Make sure you ask the gate owner's permission before trying this. I remember being shouted at as a child for just climbing on a gate, let alone oscillating on it.Download Standard Podcast | 22 7 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rip the Calico | Here's a very popular reel. It is particularly suited to the flute.Download Standard Podcast | 21 7 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Garden of Daisies | Here's a set dance or long dance. I'm afraid the daisies are a bit wilted here but hopefully someone out there will revive them.Download Standard Podcast | 21 7 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Martin Mulhaire’s Number 9 | Here's one which I was sent a while ago (thanks Billy) and have only got around to posting now.Download Standard Podcasts | 20 7 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rolling in The Barrel | I know about rolling out the barrel. Here another way to barrel roll. This tune is on a record of PJ Hayes and Paddy Canny.Download Standard Podcasts | 19 7 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Gillian’s Apples (2) | Here is the four part 'D' version of the previous jig.Download Standard Podcasts | 18 7 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Gillian’s Apples (1) | Here's a jig the title of which sometimes states the apples as being Gillan's and not Gillian's. As Gillan is just a Gillian with an eye missing then bad spllenig probably accounts for this. There are two main versions of this tune. Here's the two part one in G.Download Standard Podcast | 18 7 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Old Copperplate | This is the one some people call "The Copperplate" while calling the one I call "The Old Copperplate" "The Copperplate". If you search this site for "Copperplate" you'll find the one I call "The Copperplate" sandwiched between 2 other tunes which I neither call "The Copperplate" nor "The Old Copperplate". I hope that clears up any potential confusion.Download Standard Podcast | 18 7 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Plough in The Stars | Here's a reel written by Larry Redican. I could never really get all that constellation stuff (or anything to do with the universe for that matter). The nocturnal lanterns all just look like dots to me. I'd love to be able to look up and see "Ursa Minor" or "Pegasus" or "The Sturmey Archer 3 Seeed Hub" but all I get are dots. Nice Reel though. Thanks again, C. (The rest of the list is going to require a bit of head scratching - hard to do while playing a flute but nothing ventured ...)Download Standard Podcasts | 17 7 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Hunter’s House | This is another of Reavy's tunes. I had to check in a book of his tunes to see which one matched this name. I then had to check the order in which my fingers waggled in order to bring my version towards some sort of approximation of the way he had written it. Hopefully this version should be close enough to play with people with better powers of recall than mine. It is one of Reavy's most popular reels.Download Standard Podcast | 16 7 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Green Gates | The picture is just a blatant ploy to allow me to quote Sherlock Holmes when asked what had happened to the gates ... "Lemon entry, my dear Watson" (primary school, 1975). This is a very popular reel, again from my new list (thankyou). I hope all gates that should be, are now very verdant indeed.Download Standard Podcasts | 16 7 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Cúil Aodha Jig | Here's another one from my new list. I hope it's the right one. I've already played it as "Amhrán an Tae" (The Tea Song) but as I used a different key and a different name, I'm claiming that it is a different tune. It's a good tune to exercise the G sharp key although the wee finger on my left hand seemed fairly reluctant to be party to procedure. I think I'm going to play tunes with no notes in them at all for the next while - sort of John Cage on the flute.Download Standard Podcast | 15 7 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jenny’s Chickens | Here's a reel which I've recently been reminded of. It has been recorded by many people in the past, none of whom made it sound as foul or paultry has it does here.Download Standard Podcast | 15 7 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Jug of Punch | This is actually a picture of a jug of Tasmanian Iced Tea but it looks quite nice. The picture I first found of a punchbowl had something disgusting in it. Talking of things disgusting, I afraid the playing here isn't all that pretty but it might be OK as a raw material for someone else to make a tune from.Download Standard Podcast | 15 7 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Old Dundeen | Here's a tune about a Dundeen. It's the first reference to Dundeens I've heard today. I think the fiddle player Paddy Killoran recorded this when the Dundeen was not just quite as old as it is now.Download Standard Podcast | 15 7 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Broken Bridge Hornpipe | Here's a hornpipe from a new list of tunes I have. I first heard it in 'A' but my fingers refused to acknowledge this and I've played it here in 'G'.Download Standard Podcast | 14 7 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Fisherman’s Island | Here's a Reavy tune which is often just known as "Reavy's". I don't know why.Download Standard Podcast | 14 7 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Molloy’s Favourite | Here's a good tune. It's particularly good at being the one after the one before it. Paddy Killoran made a good job of it on a record about 70 years ago.Download Standard Podcast | 13 7 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Buckley’s Fancy | A nice reel which is nice to play. All very nice indeed.Download Standard Podcast | 13 7 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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O’Rourke’s Reel | Here's a very popular reel. I'm surprised I hadn't put it on the site before now. It suits most instruments which people use for playing Irish traditional music. The ones it doesn't suit are probably just too hard to please, or to be pleased with.Download Standard Podcasts | 12 7 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Wedding Reel | Here's a tune I was asked to put on. I wasn't aware of knowing a "Wedding Reel" so I just made a stab at this version: http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/518 . It's more a "Reading Reel" here and in order to expunge some of my most dodgy notes it may have to be a "Weeding Reel". I've played the second part as plainly as possible here. I suspect some people (especially a few in the list on thesession.org of those who have recorded it) might put a bit of syncopation into this part but I'm around eighty million percent allergic to that particular activity in most traditional tunes.Download Standard Podcast | 12 7 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Paddy Clancy’s Jig | Here's a nice jig which I stole from the same place as the previous two tunes.Download Standard Podcasts | 11 7 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Tar Road to Sligo | Another bit of Bothy Band booty. A Tar dis to Sligo would be handy. The roads are better now than they were but it's hard to find them under all the cars.Download Standard Podcast | 11 7 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Patsy Geary’s Jig | Here's the first of today's "sure he's just nicking tunes of Bothy Band records now" tunes. I stole it from a Bothy Band record. Ir's a sort of slide / jig but I'll keep it in the jig section as I'm too far north for sliding.Download Standard Podcast | 11 7 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Road to Lisdoonvarna | Not much to say about this tune ... common as muck but feels better in the ear than muck. As with most common tunes it's common because it's a good tune and so people like it. It's also a good reel for learning on the flute, without too many "funny bits".Download Standard Podcast | 9 7 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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An Charraigín Rua | Here's a Micko (or is it Micho?) Russell reel. It sounds a bit like something else - don't they all? I'm never sure about the Micko / Micho thing. A badly written "k" can have a fair bit of "h"iness about it so maybe they're the same thing. I'm sure there are plenty of people who know the answer to this crucial question.Download Standard Podcast | 8 7 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Boys of Tandragee | I think this jig is from a song : "The Roll-ick-ing Boys of Tan-der-a-gee". All I know of Tandragee is that the Northern version of Tayto crisps are made there. Whatever about other questions of nationality, surely the two Tayto communities in Ireland could come together.Download Standard Podcast | 8 7 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Humours of Lissadell | Here's a great reel for flute, fiddles or flugelhorns. I'm working of the layout for an irish fluglehorn tunes site but it's not ready for air yet.Download Standard Podcast | 8 7 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Seán sa Cheo | Here's a reel to get misty-eyed about while you travel out on the high Cs. If you know any fiddle players who haven't quite got round to playing elevated notes it can be a fairly passable recreation to watch their various ways of playing the second part of this reel.Download Standard Podcast | 7 7 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ríl Gan Ainm | Here's a good flute tune. I don't know what it's called. It can be found, among other places, in the book "Trip to Sligo" among the tunes from the South Sligo flute player and singer, Colm O'Donnell.Download Standard Podcasts | 7 7 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Miss Monaghan | If someone could clone Clones then there would be no need to miss Monaghan ever again. Sorry for trotting out the same puny pun as before. I have no imagination. This reel is a good stalwart of sessions and recordings wherever Irish traditional music is played. I hope this version is OK.Download Standard Podcast | 6 7 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Miss McDonald’s (2) | Someone else misses it too. Here's another pelt peeling for poor felix. I've not played this tune for years as there used to be someone living here who played it all the time. The only thing more annoying than that was almost any other tune he played. My immune system is just beginning to allow the tune back into my head now.Download Standard Podcast | 6 7 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Miss McDonald’s | Like ways to skin a cat, there is more than one set of notes to make a Miss McDonald's Reel. This is a nice light sort of a one. I've been mostly dining on stout, gin, water and nervously nibbled nails over the last while - not a burger in site. I can't say that I miss McDonald's at all. In fact I'd be happy if the one in the centre of Belfast wasn't there. It makes the surrounding area smell of stale fat which isn't very nice for the tourists who are waiting across the road for their rain soaked open top bus tour of the city. At least when the bus arrives it takes them away from the smell of I'm Lovin' It.Download Standard Podcasts | 6 7 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Corner House | Here's a nice reel I was asked to play (is this it, M?). I used to hear this tune more than I do now. Maybe that's just because I need my ears syringed.Download Standard Podcast | 6 7 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Courting Them All | This sounds like the stage between mass arrests and sentencing. I think this tune is on a record of Kevin Burke and Jackie Daly. I know it is in CRÉ 3, number 119 as that's where I stole this version from.Download Standard Podcast | 5 7 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Killannan’s Fancy | I never knew the name of this tune and seems to have about 6.3 half versions of it floating around in my head. While I was in the process of stealing tunes out of Ceol Rince na hÉireann Vol 3, I found this version with this name. It is number 116 and comes from Roger Sherlock's flute playing.Download Standard Podcast | 5 7 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Pull The Knife and Stick it Again | Here's a tune I was asked to play. It's on Matt Molloy's first record. I don't know where he got the tune or the name from. It sounds a bit odd played slowly but here goes ... (The quicker version seems to recover its composure a bit) Brendán Breathnach put it in Ceol Rince na hÉireann 3 (No. 12) in case you want to see the dots, or blood spatters.Download Standard Podcast | 4 7 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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