Tunes with F natural / 2nd C-nat

Uilleann Pipes
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Hi!
I have an arhpa chanter with C anf F natural keys and I would like to use them, specially F-nat key.

So, I’m looking for tunes with F natural key. Not tunes as Garret Barry’s than can use it as ornament or accent. I’m looking for tunes as Maids of Mitchelstown where using F-nat key is more than useful.

I’m looking for tunes with 2nd octave C-nat too so I can practice using both keys.

I’m don’t want to do a search at thesession.org by key because I would like to know those that you play, your favourites.

Thank you. :slight_smile:

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Chief O’Neill’s favorite springs to mind

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The air ‘Green Fields of Canada’ makes fine use of the F nat key in both octaves.

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Maybe it should spring back :boggle: if ye look in his book no 806 ye will find that it is played with F# .
I also know this tune as the Flowers of Adrigole .No 204 in Roches’ Collection where the version is played as a dotted hornpipe with the F so ye’s can take yer pick.Dotted and rather Northumbrian sounding with the pippity pip going on or musical as O’Neill transcribed and sounding more authentic to my ear.But I’m deaf anyways.
Slán Go Foill
Uilliam

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ace and deuce of pipering-tricky f-key stuff

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The Yellow Tinker and Banish Misfortune are a reel and a jig that will keep you busy F-ing away :wink:

PD.

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One of Lunasa’s:
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/1089
Played as an air / slow reel

The Coleraine has plenty of key use to keep you busy:
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/17

This one will use the high Cnat and F keys:
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/2525

Doinna:
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/8154
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0KQTv8qvkE

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Travelling Through Blarney is a good one for F natural.

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Thank you, very much. I think It’s enough stuff to start.

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One of my favorite F natural tunes is the reel “The Bunch of Green Rushes.”

I like Chief O’ Neill’s in both F natural and F# guises, but there’s no reason not to learn both versions…

Lots of tunes use the high C natural–The reel Eileen Curran has some very tasty use of C naturals in its second part. Lots and lots of tunes use them, though…Have fun.

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Bean Dubh an Ghleanna, lovely air. - C key

Tabhair Dom Do Lamh. - F key

You could if you wanted use the F key on Castle Kelly.

That’s all I’ve got off the top of my head.

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To the best of my knowledge, the only tune I use the Cnat. key in is The Stone in the Field. As far as tunes that use the Fnat. key go, the only one that I use the key regularly for is Cook in the Kitchen.

There’s also Valencia Harbour for the Fnat., but you’ll be needing a B flat as well. If you don’t have the B flat key, then you may be able to fudge one with the C nat. key, by opening the key with all the finger holes closed. Depending on the chanter, this can give you a passable B flat.

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For a once-off trick you can use the Cnat key on a triplet like cBA a la Paddy Keenan. Try it at the very beginning of Spike Island Lasses. Don’t over-use it, though.

djm