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.
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.
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.
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".
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.
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.
Comes from big cow's?
Here's a very popular reel. I don't know a wild pile about it.
I think I have one of these which helps me cook.
Here's a nice plain tune which shouldn't do anyone too much harm.
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 ...
A popular jig. I can't tell you much about it now as I have to rush off now.
Related to the emery bard.
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.
Here's a nice hornpipe from County Clare. Some nice things do come from that county, so I'm told.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 ...
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.
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.
