Tune identification

Uilleann Pipes
1

Can anyone help me with the names of these two tunes (first parts of each given) …

Please excuse my sorry attempt at ABC - I’ve never used it before so am not quite sure about the transcription. I have used a colon to indicate a roll …

A:AFADAFA:Bdefded
CG:GEG:GCedCAGEG

and

a2gfAdgfAdgfAdeC
eagfAdfgfedCABCd

Many thanks!
Jim

2

The first one is The Holly Bush
Can’t quite figure out the second one.

3

the Fairy Reel maybe?

4

The first one is The Holly Bush. More or less:

~A2 FA DBAG | FAde fded | cG ~G2 AGDg |cedc AGFG | A2 FA DBAG | FAde fded | cG ~G2 cedB |cAGE D3 B :||: Addc# defg | adde dcAB |3c B cdeg | aged cAGB | Addc# defg | adde dcAB |3c B cded | cAGE D3 B:||

Can’t quite figure out the second one.

5

Thanks for that - it seems that was indeed The Holly Bush I was attempting to play! It goes to confirm that there are as many versions of tunes as there are pipers - I checked the title on thesession.org and their version runs
A2FA DAFG|ABde fded|cGG2 EGG2|cedc AGFG|
A2FA DAFG|ABde fded|cGG2 cedc|AcGE D2FG:|
|:Add^c defg|adde dcAc|GccB cdeg|aged cAGc|
Add^c defg |adde dcAB|cGG2 cedc|AcGE D2FG:|
Slightly different to yours but similar to the version I learnt … any remaining differences are down to my faulty lugs …:slight_smile:

I don’t think the other one is the Fairy Reel though, if thesession can be believed … it starts on 2nd octave A (very staccato opening) and feels more like a hornpipe than a reel

6

Are you sure now (don’t pay too much attention to the session.org in these matters):

ag¦fAdg fAdg|fAdf ceag|fAdf gfed|cABc d ----etc

7

I think Peter’s on the money.

You can listen to Neillidh Mulligan’s take on it (channelling Tommy Reck) here: http://cdbaby.com/cd/neilmulligan3
The second time through the A part is what you’re looking for.
Wasted as a fast reel.

8

Peter - the only thing I am sure of is that I am not sure at all! Your transcription is a match for what I have been playing, so I will go with the Fairy Reel and be d***ed to thesession.org :slight_smile:. I don’t know that many tunes yet, so it was bugging me to have them filed as ‘another tune’ or ‘gan ainm #7 (bippedy bippedy)’!

Thanks once again to all!

9

Thanks for the Neillidh Mulligan link also - that’s the tune alright. I agree, I much prefer it played at slightly less than turbo speed, but as a nearly 50 y/o newbie with recalcitrant fingers, I am strongly in favour of slow(er) piping to go with ‘slow food’ and all the rest of that fashionable malarkey :slight_smile:

back to practice now … the working day is done, hurrah!

10

I’ll second that. :slight_smile: