Season’s greetings and a merry Christmas to all of you. Hope you’ll get a chance to relax and enjoy yourself with family and friends – and maybe play a tune or two 
A small jig on this ‘day before Christmas’: 
Best wishes,
Brian
Thank you for the tune and for the message!
Happy Holidays!
M
Merry Christmas!
Happy Yule!
I hope everyone has a safe and happy holiday season.
I have always loved this time of year for its antiquity. Celebrating at this time of year is a tradition that goes back further than recorded history. When you add your voice and your music to that celebration, your voice echoes down the halls of Time.
One reason I love playing wooden flutes is that same feeling of antiquity. Some folks may wonder why I still play my old German 8-key alongside my 6-key Hamilton. It’s because the old flute is a piece of living history, and when I play it, I hear in its sounds echoes of a world that is gone and will not return.
Peace and joy be with you all, through the holidays and through the coming year.
–James
What he said ^
That is why my Tenor Banjo is from 1925, I wanted one with some history so I got an old one. I could have gotten a new Gold Tone which was fancier but I chose the old one.
Merry Christmas to all who celabrate it. Happy Hanukah to my fellow Jews. Happy other Holidays if anyone here is cepebrateing them. Interesting tune, it is nice.
I tried the tune on the guitar, the fiddle, and the flute.
I sounded bad on all of them.
It must be a tricky tune; couldn’t be me.
I boiled over the noodles in the kitchen in the process.
Merry Christmas, everyone!
I tried it on Whistle as that is what was closest and it is a cool tune. I am not really a fan of the quarter notes in the A part as I can never count those right in 6/8.
unseen, tap out the eighth notes and you’ll get it easily…
I’ve been wondering of late, especially after watching a 1938 version of A Christmas Carol on television, what George Rudall would have been doing on this night. It was in the Dickens time, so perfect it would fit to the story.
Interesting. I had my own boxwood Rudall out this morning, realizing it was manufactured at that time (c.1832), and that George’s own favorite flute was an 8key boxwood.
Sigh
It makes you pine for “simpler” days, no?
Notice, too, that in a Christmas Carol, there are no decorated trees nor presents. Just commeraderie and friendship and lasting enjoyment of a festive time. And recognition and help to those less fortunate.
The way it should be.
Play your flutes out loud on Christmas Morning!!
dm
Nice ! Nice !
(sounds best here on the Tipple Bb…)
Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good tune !
Jack
Merry Christmas!
I think Prince Albert, Queen Victoria’s husband, supposedly brought the idea of Christmas trees to England from his native Germany. Maybe they hadn’t caught on by the time of A Christmas Carol, or only in some circles.
Peace and joy,
Jeanie
Merry Christmas!
God Bless us, everyone! 
It’s what has led me to the fife and now the keyless flute. Amazing how such a simple strip of wood with some holes in it has made music throughout the history of the world, parts 1 and 2.
Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukah and the rest to all.
BillG
I’ve just “midi’ed” it - and although it’s a strict interpretation it gives you the beat of the quarter notes: tune in midi
Maybe that helps with the counting 
/Brian
By the way, I neglected to mention: that is a fine tune, and really seems to fit the day.
Best wishes,
–James
i like that tune, At this time of year my mind wanders back to my teenage
years in Ireland, we would be wraping the tenons and trying to tighten up the old flutes as best as possible, preparing for the day after Christmas,
that day was called St Stephens day and we would start early in the morning
and roam the countryside from house to house playing music , we would start playing about 50 yards before we would reach the house, then enter and continue to play for about 5 minutes, the homeowner would give us a little money, now and againn as we approached some houses the owner would lock the door, although that did’nt happen too often,
There was about 8 in a group (or batch as we called it) one person to collect the money, he usually carried a stick or cane just in case of attack from dogs
etc,we had two bodhran and five or six flute players,
My aunt used to say "there was nothing better to raise the heart on a frosty winter day than to hear the sound of a half dozen flute players coming up the
lane to her house, Those were happy days for me.
May God bless all of you and make your Christmas and holiday very special.
Dave that makes sense now, thanks. It does make me want simpler days…
Glinjack, if you listen to the Album “Give Us a Penny and Let Us Be Gone” by Teada the 4th track (Ace and Deuce of Piping) is supposed to be an interperitation of St. Stephen’s day. Check it out.
A bizarre update to this 5+ year old thread as I today - totally by accident - found out that the tune has been recorded on a CD (Jim Lindsay & His Band - Scottish Christmas Dance Party) It gets even more crazy when I find this thread on another forum (look at spot 18). Not bad considering some of the names on that list 
Thought some of you might be interested to see this - the top twenty best seller CDs (July 2011) from one of our main distribution companies:
- Red Hot Chilli Pipers - Bagrock to the Masses
- Red Hot Chilli Pipers - Music for the Kilted Generation
- Red Hot Chilli Pipers - Blast Live
- Pure Bagpipe Magic
- Runrig - Long Distance: Best of Runrig
- Great Wee Tartan Album
- Eddi Reader - Songs of Robert Burns (deluxe Edition)
- The Essential Dougie MacLean
- Phil Coulter - Total Tranquillity - The Best of Phil Coulter
- Music of the Highlands
- Capercaillie - The Blood is Strong
- The Pipes Are Calling
- Celtic Mystique - Women of Song
- Runrig - The Best: 30 Year journey
- Runrig - 50 Great Songs
- A Highland Journey
- Best Ever Scottish Compilation
18. Jim Lindsay & his SDB - Scottish Christmas Dance Party- Red Hot Chilli Pipers - Red Hot Chilli Pipers
- Scottish Reflections
There you go… crazy crazy