can you give me an hand searching abc for The Humours of Toomagh?
Is a reel in C maj and I’ve half of it in my head…
thks be4hand
m
try searching for humours of TooNagh or the Cloon. I have an ABC I wrote from the playing of the Castle Ceiliband, they played it in D, a version recently recorded by Michael Hynes and Denis Liddy. I’ll give you that if you want it.
Look also for “The Cloon Reel”, which is another name this tune goes by. Also try varied spellings like “Humors of Tooma”. And expect to find it in D as well, a key it’s sometimes heard in. I prefer it in C myself. How often do you hear a flute player say he prefers a tune in C over D?
Here are some “dots” in C…
thanks a million! I have too Michael Hynes and Denis Liddy’s recording but their version
of the tune is quite different from what I’ve heard playing from a friend of mine. the version
I was searching is more or less no2 on the “dots”.
Concerning C tunes on flute I also like a lot the way “the old schoolmaster” fits the instrument.
I play it beetween the “new broom” and Paddy O’Brien’s “Larry’s favourite” ,and it gives nice changes.
Do you know any other interesting C tune that fits the flute well?
If I was fussy I’d say the Cloon isn’t exactly a C tune but some mode of D, Maids of Mitchellstown moves around a mode like that. Humours of Scariff should go well on the flute once you fit the fnaturals in, Cashmere Shawl, that sort.
[edit to fix a few typos]
yes, I know saying that The humours of Toomagh is in C maj is somehow
wrong, as it is a modal tune. often in the past (and at a lesser extent also now)
accompainists were used to pay not much attention to emphasize the modal
nature of the music, putting in such way some annoying chords.
Humours of Scarrif is a good flute tune btw,and one of my favourites, it has
something ancient and wild that appeals me a lot.
Oisin McDiarmada gives a nice version of this tune on his first recording with
Brian Fitzgerald on the banjo and Michael Rooney on the harp ( I know that
fiddle+banjo+ harp could seem a terrible combo, but the overall result is great
in this case- surely due to the huge amount of talent of these three young musicians)
cheers
michel
Sorry if I’m bothering you guys 
I’ ve found another C tune that goes quite well on the flewt. It’s a jig
GEE cEE GEE G2A GEE cBC d3 dCA
GEE cEE GEE G2g ^fed CAG Add d3
g3 ged cAB cde gea ged eaa age
g3 gea ged cde fed cAG Add d3
Anybody has a name for it?
m
Paddy Canny calls it The Rooms at Dooagh