hi,
I was wondering if anyone has had any luck transposing Cleveland Park and Tan Lin, to make them whistle friendly to play. Any insight would be great.
Thanks!
Caryn
Don’t know about Cleveland Park but there’s several versions…spelled Tam Lin under JC’s Tunefinder. Would that be the same one you are looking for? Gm
Caryn, what are you transposing these from and to? If you’re not sure, all you need to do is tell us how many sharps/flats, and we can go from there.
Hi Caryn
I found the gif of “Cleveland Park,” but I’m not much into transposing. On this site it is in F major – one flat. Maybe others can help you once they see the tune.
Go here:
http://www.slowplayers.org/MPSP/MPSP_Jigs.pdf
Mark
On 2002-02-11 19:36, LKtz wrote:
hi,
I was wondering if anyone has had any luck transposing Cleveland Park and Tan Lin, to make them whistle friendly to play. Any insight would be great.Thanks!
Caryn
Caryn,
I followed the link to Cleveland Park, and took a look at it. It seems to be in D minor, there. Unfortunately, it has chromatic notes (A,Bflat,Bnat,Cnat,Csharp). That kind of spread is not “whistle friendly”. I transposed it to B minor, which put all the notes in the whistle’s range, but it has an A sharp and a G sharp. Of course, some whistles will let you cross finger an approximation for those notes or you can half-hole them. But I wouldn’t call it friendly. If you still want, I can send you a jpg of the transposed tune.
bye
Bill
Bill’s right, B-minor is the only key that’ll keep the tune intact without having to lop things off the top or bottom. Perhaps a tune that you really like is the best incentive to work on your technique and get used to half-holing…
Tam Lin would be a simple matter in B-minor fingering, though. Then use a C-whistle if you need to play with other people who do it in A, and an F whistle if it’s in D.
Thanks for all the replies. I would be interested in seeing the versions people have of both tunes. If anyone wants to email me (irish_dancer@mac.com) that would be great.
Thanks for all the help!
Caryn
PS I would like to be able to play them on a D whistle, just because that is the only key I have. Also, I have no problem half-holing. Thanks! Again.
Caryn, try this mongrel version. I got the bones of it from JC’s ABC tunefinder, which says it is from the Paddy O’Brien tune collection, and then changed it about a bit based on how I remember learning it about 20 years ago.
This tune seems to have mutated into many often wildly different versions. This one is pretty tame and to be brutal I think the tune sucks in B minor on a whistle! It sounds totally different in D minor on a fiddle, when the second bar, with its Bb chord, is a weird, dark, delightful surprise. The G chord on the whistle sounds, well, bland.
X:1
T:Tam Lin
M:C|
L:1/8
C:Davey Arthur
R:Reel
Z:
K:BM % transposed from Dm
||:FB B2 FBdB |G2BG dGBG|A2cA eAcA| dcBA BAFE |!
FB B2 FBdB |G2BG dGBG|A2cA eAce|[1 dcBA B2 BA :|[2 dcBA B2 df |!
|:bffe dB B2 |bffe dBdf|ae e2 ce e2| ae e2 efga |!
bffe dBdf |bffe dB B2| GFGA BABc | dfaf cecA :||
(edited to fix abcs)
[ This Message was edited by: StevieJ on 2002-02-12 22:20 ]
StevieJ
So… Hate to be dumb, but how did you find this tune at Concertina.net? Just for drill, I tried to search every way for Sunday and turned up nothing. But, for sure, it is there.
So… Hate to be dumb, but how did you find this tune at Concertina.net?
I didn’t “find it” there. I posted it HERE and just enclosed it in the (abc)(/abc) tag pair (using square brackets of course).
These tags display the link, and when you follow it, the ABC code is passed to the site at concertina.net, which renders it and displays the tune.
The tags were programmed by our faithful webmonkey, Rich, in what he terms “a quick hack”. He arranged things with his buddy Paul at concertina.net. You can read Rich’s announcement of this development somewhere in the announcements forum, I think.
Neat, is it not? Rich deserves our continued praise and thanks for this feature, which more people should make use of.
To see how you can do this, just “Edit” my post above.
Steve
Bill ~ I would love to have the jpg of Cleveland Park that you transposed. I just printed it off in the key of F and was trying to figure out how the heck to play it. Thanks in advance. Gm
On 2002-02-13 15:35, StevieJ wrote:
I didn’t “find it” there. I posted it HERE and just enclosed it in the (abc)(/abc) tag pair (using square brackets of course).Neat, is it not? Rich deserves our continued praise and thanks for this feature, which more people should make use of.
I’ll say neat! Thank you Steve, and thank you Rich!