Hi all,
would anyone happen to know the name of this tune?
The recording is with the Bothy Band I think, but the name is lost… 
http://www.tomsing.com/sw/track02.mp3
Best regards,
Eivind
Sounds to me like a version of the Corner House.
cheers,
Jeroen
Well it ain’t the Bothy Band, that I can assure you of! A Finnegan-inspired performance, I’d say.
It’s a modern Scottish fiddle tune that I’ve heard many times around here - unfortunately its chief proponent has gone to live in Scotland and the other two guys that use to play it are in Ireland at the moment, otherwise I could find out the name. If nobody else can come up with it I should be able to get it for you in a few weeks.
Well, it sure would be nice to know the name for it…I could always pick the notes out myself but would love if you dug out the name… 
Cheers,
Eivind
According to windows media player it is the Bothy Band and the tune is Old Hag You Have Killed Me.
Ron
Another reason to regard Bill Gates as The Enemy.
Reminds me of the Congress Reel played way too fast.
You are right Bloom. If you search the windows media album info, etc. It says no info on this album. But after all Bloom Bill knows what we really want and he will provide it after eliminating all competition.
Ron
Now, now… You guys really should use Macs anyway.
Well, the reason for the id3 tag on the file saying it is the Bothy Band is because I got the file from someone who THOUGHT it was the Bothy Band playing.
Now, the latest tip for performing band is “Old blind Dogs”.
Anyway, I assembled a bunch of notes into something resembling the whistle playing and made up a temporary working title.
Thanks for the efforts, guys!
Eivind 
Doesn’t sound anything like any Old Blind Dogs recording I’ve ever heard – the style is all wrong – but I’ll run it by my lady to see if it’s something on one of the early albums I don’t have.
I do (of course).
She agrees with me that it’s not the Dogs, but she’s heard it before – she thinks either she or her roommate owns the CD. No idea what it is, though.
UPDATE: Or maybe it is the Dogs – she’s become obsessed with it. She says she wants to go into “Bedlam Boys” after hearing it, which suggests it might be a clip from “The Ferret Set” on their album New Tricks.
The Ferret Set: Dinkies/A Shetland Tune/Andy Rennick’s Ferret/Dinkies/Cuttymun and Treladle
Too bad we don’t have the album here to check.
It is “Andy Renwick’s Ferret” (aka “Andy Rennick’s Ferret”, apparently):
http://ecf-guest.mit.edu/~jc/cgi/abc/gettune?F=PNG&U=http://home.usit.net/~bhooper/scot4.abc&X=45&T=ANDYRENWICKSFERRET&N=AndyRenwicksFerret.png
Composed by Gordon Duncan.
Great!
Thanks a lot, folks!
Now I have the name as well; I wrote down the tune yesterday.
I have decided to use scores as reminders of what tunes I actually know…I tend to forget as the evenings get late. Or the pints are multiplying. Or…whatever. Thanx, all!!
Eivind
It’s a cracking tune but I’ve only heard it played very fast on an Accordion before. The sound clip is super. I’ve tried to learn it on the whistle as I own several tame ferrets and a house polecat adn it struck me as a good tune to learn..
And wouldn’t you know — just half a day after puzzling out what tune it is, I find a mention of it in Dirty Linen. The composer, Gordon Duncan, has a new CD, Thunderstruck, which is closed by this tune, apparently with some new variations. (By the way, it’s actually a Highland bagpipe tune, as can be easily surmised looking at the range of the notes.)
I played it last night with a couple of friends, and as we got around it a few times it got just faster and faster and… I’d better learn that half-hole C-nat soon. Especially for the Low whistle, all this A minor stuff implies quite a lot of finger juggling jumping between C’s and A’s.
Phew;
Eivind 