Tongs by the Fire and Fig for a Kiss are my newest. Also a new polka set we started at session: Micky Chewing Bubblegum, Maid of Ardaugh, and Finnish Polka.
Sean Ryan’s Hornpipes as per Larry Nugent: The Windy Gap
Star of county down And Foggy Dew
Try playing those tunes on a C whistle (if you have one). Julia Delaney sounds great there (I don’t know Patsy Geary’s).
Laura
Thanks for the tip, I’ll take a look at that. So far I’ve only figured the tune out by ear from a Bothy Band record.
I’m currently working on Fisher’s Hornpipe and A Trip to Sligo.
working on
Sir Roger de Coverley
Kiss me Under the Coverlet &
An Phis Fliuch
as some kind of a set.
Recently heard “Far from Home” which seems to go nicely with “The Temperance Reel” (or would if I could play it fast enough).
I hate the fact that it’s also called “Johnny Todd” as it won’t fit in my brain with the Liverpool ballad “Johnny Todd” which I’ve known from time immoral. (I had an uncle in Liverpool called Johnny Todd and it was HIS tune. BEFORE Z-cars. For 'merkins: Z-Cars was an old, old, old UK cop show which had “Johnny Todd” as the theme tune.)
204 - Variations on the Scottish Air: “Cock up your Beaver”
http://www.oldmusicproject.com/occ/tunes.html
So much feistier than the version on
http://tunedb.woodenflute.com/
I’m learning it for my mother-in-laws party ![]()
boys of 25
sixpenny money, east at glendart, the butterfly and the whistling banshee.
I beg your pardon?
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Oh…
Just learned Queen of the Rushes
and Im working on Boil the Breakfast Early and Maid in the Cherry Tree
Flute though…
Nice O’Carolan site, thanx!
Charlie Hunters Jig
Last Night’s Fun
and now, since I heard it at Sunday’s session The Orphan
Charlie Hunters Jig
Last Night’s Fun
and now, since I heard it at Sunday’s session The Orphan
Well, I got Patsy Geary’s under my fingers and gave her a test drive at Sunday’s session. Surprisingly, nobody else knew it or had even heard of it. The first time I ever heard Paddy Keenan play it I thought to myself “I am so learning that one!” I don’t know why I procrastinated for so long but I’m quite taken with this one; it’s one of those jigs that just stands out among many others.
Well, other then keeping my brain ready on the tunes I’ve already learned… I’m working on Over The Moor to Maggie, and Sean Sa Cheo. Forgive my Irish, I don’t know it. ![]()
I’m working on Gan Ainm.
Oh, I love that one!
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You beat me to the punch Aanvil! ![]()
Kesh Jig I just started today. I’ll have it nailed in a few days I hope.
Swallowtail Jig I found very easy to figure out by ear but for some reason very hard to ornament to my satisfaction.
Right now I’m mainly working on easier tunes that I can introduce to my friend who just bought himself a whistle last week.
Right now I’m working on Calliope House, Cooley’s Reel and Inisheer. I’m new to the whistle so I’ve been working the standards.