do you play C tunes? I like the key a lot, as gives often a nice change in sets,
but I know only a few tunes that suit well the flute:
the old schoolmaster
the humours of toomagh
the bothy band C reel (they played it both in C and in D)
a nice patrick davey’s jig in C (that I learned from barry kerr’s recording)
any suggestion?
michel
There’s “My Maryanne” - there’s a great recording of it played by Isaac Alderson and Sam Amidon at www.samamidon.com
If you’ve got a copy of O’Neill’s handy, there’s a sweet slip jig in there in C called “The Funny Mistake” that you might want to give a shot.
J.
Hej Jamie, thanks for suggestions. My Marianne was hanging around
the back of my mind from awhile, now I have a source for learning it properly!
Glad to listen some young good musicians with non irish names, BTW.
ciao
michel
there’s a great jig on Barry Kerr’s recording, in C, that does not use the F-natural
Cool tune
wish i could recall the name of it
i play it, but, alas my memory
yes I know this tune, it was composed by patrick davey, piper from belfast
(who plays/played with craobh rua).I’ve mentioned it in my first post.
yesterday I found another good tune in C, called “pat the budgie”. it is on
“time on our hands”, recording of my good friend Murty Ryan and Siobhan
Peoples. BTW “my marianne” is a nice tune indeed, I love it!
Hi Folks,
The name of the tune you asking about is called the HEADWOOD CROSSING and indeed was composed by the great Belfast piper and composer Paddy Davey. He composed it along with another four jigs to pay respect to the Antrim Narrow Gauge Railway System hence the name.
We still give that tune the odd outing now and then and also there is an other tune on the last Croabh Rua album and its called the Irish girl, and it is also in the key of C which has a bit of a minor twist to it. As far as I know this is an old trad tune, which requires an F nat in the second part but I think it really lends itself to the flute. I find playing tunes in the key of C always gives sessions or a set of tunes a nice key change.
Brendan
SLAN
I’ ve found another C tune that goes quite well on the flewt. It’s a jig
GEE cEE GEE G2A GEE cBC d3 dCA
GEE cEE GEE G2g ^fed CAG Add d3
g3 ged cAB cde gea ged eaa age
g3 gea ged cde fed cAG Add d3
Anybody has a name for it?
m
I too think that C gives always a great change!