Name of tune?

Whistle
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What’s the name of this tune?

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=45255776

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Since no one else has chimed in …

Bally, I can’t access MySpace (old computer). But if you can post an audio clip or even a brief ABC, I’ll give it a go.

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There are two tunes. The first sounds to me like a setting of London Lasses, a bit different from the version I am familiar with. But it might have another name, all these G flute reels sound alike once you know about 200 of them… :slight_smile: The second tune is also familiar, can’t put my finger on it at the moment.

Edit: Second one starts something like this:

DGG2 BGG2 | BGBd g3a | b2ag egde | gedB ABGE

tunepal.org couldn’t find a match. Great tune for flute or whistle.

Edit 2: Oops, the tunes are in A, tried this on tunepal.org, still no match. Still a great tune for the flute since it’s pentatonic, no G#s or Ds, basically.

EAA2 cAA2 | cAce a3b | c2 ba faef | afec BcAF

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Thanks, Steve. It looks like it could be a variant of The Road to Ballymac?

http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/2251

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No, I’ve heard that Ballymac tune quite a bit and it’s not that. I just asked a flute player friend who doesn’t recognize the tunes. He tells me that he had Steph Geremia’s CD at one point but thinks he tossed it out after a few listens :laughing: He’s going to see whether he can find it

I notice that London Lasses appears on the track listing of her CD here: http://www.thesession.org/recordings/display/3403

Maybe that is what she is playing on this clip, and maybe the next one is called Bill Hoare’s. Why don’t you (OP) ask on the flute forum, a few people there are bound not to have thrown the CD out. :smiley:

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By George, I think you’ve got it: http://www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/BILL_BINS.htm#BILL_HOARE’S

Note that the A part is basically identical to Ballymac, as the Fiddler’s Companion points out. So now the old Guru doesn’t feel so bad. :slight_smile:

Interesting that Road to Ballymac is also on the recording, on a different track.

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Flute players can’t stay away from G reels of this type, even when they’re in A :slight_smile:

The reasons I didn’t think it was Ballymac (which tunepal.org volunteered as a hopeful 65% match to my couple of bars) were a) the second bar, climbing up to g instead of e (if we bring SG’s tune down to G of course), gives the mystery tune a very different, supercharged sort of feel and b) the turns are completely different.

a) still applies, in comparison with the fiddler’s companion transcription. b) haven’t time to compare the turns today although the transcription looks plausible, launching all the phrases from high g …

So yes, it would seem likely that the mystery is solved.

EDIT: my friend has located the CD and sent me the track in question (The Garsun Who Beat His Father, London Lasses, Bill Hoare’s), and yes, by George we do have it.

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Hey, thanks all. :thumbsup:

Bally