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.
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.
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.
I can't think of anything to write about this reel so
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.
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.
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 probl...
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.
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".
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 one
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 t...
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.
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".
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
(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...
Here's my very belated response to a request to post this tune. I hope late turns out to be better than never.
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.
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.
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 s...
