I don’t know why my brain has suddenly dredged this one up, but of course, now that it has, it’s driving me nuts. What is it? By the way, it’s kind of slow, like a steady (though not slow) march, if you see what I mean.
X:1
T:
M:2/4
R:
K:EDor
EB BA/F/ | AB/c/ d/B/e | EB BA/F/ | A/d/B/A/ F/E/D/F/ | E
It kind of looks like it could be the Meenatoiten March (often incorrectly called the March of Meenatoiten Bull, which is the name John Doherty used for his version of 100 Drunken Pipers).
https://thesession.org/tunes/5252
That’s absolutely it! Funnily enough, I had just tried Tunepal again only in A, and had just found it when I saw your post. That you very much for looking. Do you play it with anything?
All the Donegal Amix marches work well together! I don’t play this one as often though, as it’s less interesting (not uninteresting though!) to me than the March of the Meenatoiten Bull (all three parts) and the Piper’s March Through the Cave.
Adding to say that it’s especially fun to play my little antique union pipes set with only the tenor and A drone going, and the regulator playing the A, like here: https://nicolasbrown.bandcamp.com/track/laustrum-poney-jig-march
It’s like a set of highland pipe marches without the volume
More or less version 7 on the session.org?
I’ve just learned a Donegal march called “The piper in the cave”. I assume it is the same tune. I think so. Paul O’Shaughnessy has a nice recording of it.
That does sound fun. Not something i can participate in, sadly. Still, fiddle and flute - I shouldn’t be too greedy.
Yes, that’s the same tune, I learned it from this video of Paul O’Shaughnessy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHT99lYqCdY I guess I changed the name due to the story that goes with it!
And yes, more or less that version. In the recording of Johnny Doherty he plays the tune ABCBA and stops, but I just play it ABC / ABC etc repeat as much as you’d like.
Anyway, regarding pipes, you just need to do the thing Doherty did, tuning to D,DAD or whatever he did to mimic the pipes on the fiddle… I know there was a string involved pulling at least two strings closer together…
That’s extraordinary! Thank you for that.
You haven’t got a link to Doherty playing it, have you (the Meenatoiten Bull, 3 parts, that is)? I can’t find it …
The Irish tune info page lists recordings and gives a sample of the first twelve seconds of each : here. It’s something, for starters.
Indeed, I have it from the recording Bundle and Go listed by Alan Ng. It sounds like the Celebrated Recordings is actually a different recording (and Alan is meticulous about dates, so…) and one I’d like to get!
I probably need to get hold of some of those recordings.
OK. I’ve found Doherty’s version of The Drunken Piper, and I see what you mean about ABCB. I think in this instance, I would play it as ABC (repeat) as you you do, NicoMoreno:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBmklRRIIcs