I used to play this with our old band, before our fiddler went to the big session in the sky, bless his soul,… I bowed it on the bass… now I want to learn it on the whistle. It is, I think, In the key of G minor. I am finding that it seems to work best on the C whistle, played from the Am position.
Anyone know this one… have suggestions… sound files…
It’s also one of my favorites. The easiest place to find this is on JC’s ABC tunefinder on the internet. I play it on a C whistle. The only version of this I’ve ever heard is on a CD by George Wilson titled The Royal Circus. It’s also included in The Waltz Book (the first one). If you’re not familiar with this tunebook, it’s an excellent source for a variety of waltzes. Good luck.
Butch DeGiorgis (BD)
I have finally gotten around to learning this one. Very nice in Am on the D whistles.
Heck … took you long enough. 
Have you also tried it in Bm or Em, or even the original Gm? Em is particularly easy, if you use some creative octave folding.
anniemcu: Finn Jenta Waltz, is one tune I’ve never heard about.
But it is Norwegian, and means Finn Girl Waltz.
Furthermore, the word Finn may have three meanings here.
Since we’re on about an obviously Norskie walts,-here’s another one:
norwegian waltz (unknown name)
Here’s a masurka, a style that has a 3/4 beat, but which isn’t quite a waltz:
Enjoy 
Well… let’s see…
Gm on the C whistle
Am on the D
Bbm on the Eb
Bm on the E whistle? (don’t have one of those… hmmm…)
Cm on the F
Dm on the G
Em on the A
Fm on the Bb
F#m on the B…
… but of course all of those are in the same fingering… would you care to share the ABCs for some of that ‘creative octave folding’ version? Purty Pleez?
Can someone post a clip, i’d be interesting in hearing how this one sounds. It “sounds” like it sounds lovely.
Sure!
X:1
T:Finn Jenta Waltz
R:Waltz
N:Transposed from GDor
N:Based on Richard Robinson ABC
Z:MTGuru
M:3/4
K:EDor
B2|E2 E^D EF|G2 GF GA|AB BA Bc|d2 dc ed|
B2 BA FA|G2 GF E2|^DE F2 ^D2|1 B4:|2 ^DE- E2|]
GA|B2 A2 G2|F4 FG|A2 G2 F2|E3 ^D EF|
G2 F2 ^D2|B2 F2 ^D2|1 E2 B2 ^A2|^AB- B2:|2 E3 E E2|E4|]
Only the lowest note (now B) needs to be folded up. The D# and A# are easy to handle. Use an F whistle to keep it in the original key of G Dorian.
Beware the non-expert whistler bearing clips. 
Here is my humble offering on a Burke D-BSBT whistle, so the tune key would be Am, or probably more accurately, A Dorian.
http://www.sassafrassgrove.com/Extras/FinnJentaWaltz_amu_burkeD.mp3
emtor, I especially like that mazurka. Thanks for sharing those.
anniemcu: Your playing is lovely. You make it sound very Norwegian, and the Burke sounds like the Norwegian Sea-flute, which looks much like a recorder but sounds more like a whistle and is being used for folk tunes here.
Your playing also has a flavour of willow-pipe music, very Norskie . . . and very nice.
Why, thank you! That is good to hear.
and you always wanted to be Norwegian, didn’t ya?
Sure, an dat’s true enough. Almost as much as oi wanter be oirish, doncha know.
Sounds like a sea-faring tune to me - I can hear waves in it.
Nicely played AnnieMc!
And thanks for the ABC MT! I can cut-and-paste ABC so much better here than that other site 
(Edited to add thanks to Emtor for the history and liguistic/semantic analysis - that is very important! If you know where you’ve been, you can see where you are going )
I can hear waves in it.
I can hear desolate quiet places, mountains and valleys as far as the eye can see, and longing.
Since the tune is about a Finn-jente, a Finnish immigrant or a sami girl,
the tune most probably expresses the feelings of a Norwegain peasant-son who falls in love with her but can’t have her without loosing both his heritage and the esteem of his kindred people. Marrying one of those girls in the old days would result in being cast out, have no place to go, and no land to work on.
MTGuro Wrote:-
X:1
T:Finn Jenta Waltz
R:Waltz
N:Transposed from GDor
N:Based on Richard Robinson ABC
Z:MTGuru
M:3/4
K:EDor
B2|E2 E^D EF|G2 GF GA|AB BA Bc|d2 dc ed|
B2 BA FA|G2 GF E2|^DE F2 ^D2|1 B4:|2 ^DE- E2|]
GA|B2 A2 G2|F4 FG|A2 G2 F2|E3 ^D EF|
G2 F2 ^D2|B2 F2 ^D2|1 E2 B2 ^A2|^AB- B2:|2 E3 E E2|E4|]
Only the lowest note (now B) needs to be folded up. The D# and A# are easy to handle. Use an F whistle to keep it in the original key of G Dorian.[/quote]
Would anyone like to explain to me how ABC works 
I’d love to learn this waltz but I’m lost with ABC.
I know what E C dc etc means but I don’t know what these 2 l ^ :l ] mean.
Thanks very much
Sure … There’s a good basic ABC tutorial here:
http://www.lesession.co.uk/abc/abc_notation.htm
And there’s a more comprehensive tutorial here:
http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/doc/ABCtut.html
The ^ is the sharp sign for the following note, the 1 and 2 indicate the first and second endings, and the 
is the repeat sign.
Thanks MT Guru
I’ve had a look this morning 
I think It may take some time to sort out but I’ll give it a go.
In the meantime has anyone got the Dots for Finn Jenta 
Thanks
Oh, sorry, narrowdog, I forgot to mention …
You can find the original G minor dots I used from Richard Robinson here, and download a png graphic or ABC:
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/music/Info/RRTuneBk/gettune/00000957.html
For my transposition in E minor, cut and paste the ABC (starting with the X:1 line) into the Concertina.net converter, and it will give you a nice PDF or JPG or MIDI that you can download:
http://www.concertina.net/tunes_convert.html
It’s definitely worthwhile learning the basics of ABC notation, since there are tons of ABC tunes on the net. Ignore the esoteric stuff at first and concentrate on 1) The headers X: T: L: M: K:, and 2) The way that note pitches and time values are represented. With a bit of prior music notation experience, you’ll have it in no time!