Started to learn a nice reel “Mossy Banks” as I came across the dots, and then found the tune on Siobhan Peoples CD “Time on our hands”. Goes well on the flute although I find the second part a bit fiddly. I wonder if there is a flute recording of the tune out there? Any of you play this tune?
It’s on Crawford’s Good Company.
I have had the tune for a long time but never played it a lot. last month though I played it while Kitty Hayes was making the tea (she always wants me to play away while she makes the tea so she may get a few new tunes off me). She jumped at it and we play it with a vengeance now. Devanney’s Goat before it makes for a nice change.
This is how we have it more or less, is the second part the same as yours? :
T:Mossy Banks
M:4/4
L:1/8
R:reel
Z:Peter Laban
K:G
gedB G3A|BAGB AEGE|DEGA Bd~d2|edgd eggf|!
gedB G3A|BAGB AE ~E2|DEGA (3Bcd ge|dBAG EGG2:|!
|:G3B ABGE|DGBG AGEG|~B3d edge|dBGA BA~A2|!
G3B ABGE|DGBG AGEG|BGBd ~g3e|dBAc BG~G2:|!
|:g2dg egde|gabg agef|g2dg egdB|ABGA BG (3Bcd|!
g2dg egde|gabg agef|gfga gfed|egfa gede:|!
We (fiddle & flute) are learning/playing this setting.
X: 1
T: Mossy Banks, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Gmaj
gedB G3A|BAGB AE~E2|D2GA Bd~d2|edgd egfa|
gedB G3A|BAGB AE~E2|~B3d egge|1dBAc BGGd:|2dBAc BGAF||
|:G3B AEGE|DGBG ABGc|Bd~d2 edge|dBGA BAAB|
GABG AEGE|DGBG ABGc|Bd~d2 eage|1dBAc BGAF:|2dBAc BGGd||
|:g2dg egde|gabg adef|g2dg egdB|ABGA BGBd|
g2dg egde|gabg adef|~g3f gfed|egfa gdef:|
This is from the Session site. different notes in this second part, could be wrong or just different, I don’t know |:G3B AEGE|DGBG ABGc| feels weird on the flute, the Gc, bit
I’ve been workin’ this tune for months now - still have a piece to go -another twenty years and I ought to have it cold…Laurence Nugent setting on his first CD - Traditional Irish Music On Flute And Tin Whistle - one of those recordings that makes you want to snap the floot in two and burn it in the fireplace and take up something easier like quantum physics…
Best!
PaulGil
"I’ve been workin’ this tune for months now - still have a piece to go -another twenty years and I ought to have it cold"Paul.
Know what you mean Paul, but keep on keeping on. I tend to go intensive on a tune until I have it, so I can play the right notes from begining to end just out of my head, no dots or stuff, at a moderate tempo. Then it’s time to get into the tune itself
Nice one!
I think it’s called John Carty’s on In Good Company (track 10, first tune).
There’s another version in CRE 2, #196, Na Bruacha Caonaigh.
djm
I hate ask the obivous David but did you actually play through nr 196 and compare it to the tune under discussion? :roll:
The tune makes one think of Swinging on a Gate, at least the first few bars, doesn’t it. Do you all double it or play it single? Christy Barry and Terry Bingham play it single. Most people play it with repeats. I like the repeats.
FWIW, Kevin C. Follows it with a couple of Rafferty tunes. I think any good tune goes well with any other good tune. I follow Devaney’s Goat with Mama’s Pet. A la Frankie and Charlie.
I just read the dots on the Session site, so I’m going by eye/ear, here, but hey! THAT’S what that tune is! Thanks, Steampacket!
Do I recall it on a Dervish recording as well? I seem to hear fiddle, zouki/mandola and bones in my mind’s ear …
Anyway, have been goofing around with that off and on for a while but was always confounded by the interval nuances of the C part, so … thanks for the title!
Now I’ve got the dots, heh-heh-heh, and shall bend them to my evil purposes! 
(But only after, alas, my nightly ritual flogging of (or more aptly, by) The Girl That Broke My Heart.) 
, David!
And then there’s Captain Kelly. I have a feeling I’ll run into mixing up the opening bar of this one with the 2nd bar of that one. (I’m already interchanging New Ships a Sailing and Old Woman of the Glen, don’t ask me why) (darned G reels) (but they sit so nicely on the flute)
Actually, the second one which he calls the Stolen Reel is a Paddy O Brien composition, the Swallow’s Nest.
The Session.org version has, like most of session.org’s versions, a few odd corners.
Peter, I meant there’s more than one tune with that name. No, these aren’t the same two tunes, but the name lead me to the second one in CRÉ, that’s all.
djm
Saying it was another version gave the wrong impression I suppose. 
Cathy I think Rob Greenaway’s transcription of Mossy Banks on “Fiddler’s companion” is the better one, compared to the one on “The session”.
I cut the ABC from Fiddler’s then paste it into the tune-a-matic at Concertina.net then print a PDF which gives you nice dots. I have no shame you see, and grab tunes any way I can 
Of course at a session I tell people I got this tune from an 102 year old flute geezer who lives in Ballyboosey, Co. Where 
There’s so many great tunes out there, so little time 
cre2 #216 is more like the culprit
Hey, thanks, Steampacket! Will do.
Incidentally, I was wrong on the Dervish version. Somehow I grafted Laurence Nugent’s pass onto a Dervish version of an entirely different reel.
And I wonder why I can’t remember tunes? 
P.S. Mr. Levine, thanks for the Dogs Among the Bushes mentions. It’s my new favorite, and I love it going into Mason’s Apron.
Just reviving this post a bit. I’ve been playing around with both of the versions for the last couple weeks now (Steam’s and Peter’s). Like steam, I may not be able to pick it up in a kitchen while waiting for water to boil, but I’ll take it where I can find it. It a fun tune.
Of the two, I find Peter’s very melodic. It’s much easier to pick up the feel of it for me. I’d been playing them on my flute, but happen to pick up the whistle today and found that Peter’s version makes a very nice whistle tune.
I think that I’ll put it with Swinging on a Gate just to throw everyone for a loop.
You can put this in the for what it’s worth category 
Erik