what's a flugge?

Trad Irish Music
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Has anyone ever heard of a flugge? Several years ago a fellow whistler passed on a pair of tunes which he said were called simply “Two Flugges” (pronounced floogies). He thought that was the name for whatever type of tune they were. They flow nicely together, but the first is a jig. The second is more march-like, with a Scottish sounding dotted rhythm.

Is there such a thing as a flugge? I’d love to find out where these come from.

Jennie

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Beats me Jennie! I tried Google, Alltheweb, Ask Jeeves, Metacrawler, Vivismo, Dogpile, Yahoo and nothing regarding a style of music came up, even going through at least ten pages of each search engine.

Now “Floogies” brings up music and dance pages as in "Flat-tone Floogies or Flat Foot Floogies. but alas not Flugge(s).

But then there is a vast store of knowledge on the forum, someone, somewhere just might have your answer.

MarkB

3

I’ve never heard of a flugge. Could it be he was mispronouncing “fugue” ? (pronounced fyüg)

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Jennie, could you post ABCs of those tunes or give us a soundclip? I’m curious. “Flugge” looks sorta Flemish, somehow.

5

Flugged if I know!! :laughing:

6

Oh well. It was worth a try. Meanwhile I’ll keep playing them and calling them flugges. I think that, geographically speaking anyway, in the Shetlands, a flugge is a sort of point or headland. Maybe that’s all it is, and nothing to to with music anyway.

Thanks for your shared wisdom and lack thereof; at least I’m not alone in my ignorance now! :slight_smile:

Jennie

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I have seen the word but on a website about baroque music and in German.

Perhaps it’s German for ’ Flugel Horn’?