… I can hear this great tune in my head, played on a fiddle, and because I can hear it I’m sure I have a recording of it (that’s how it got in my head in the first place)…
But I have no idea who plays it, what it’s called, where it is on my iRiver… Shoot!!!
I want to learn the tune!! But I can’t find it… ARRRRGGGGGHH!!!
I hate it, too…
If you can hear it well enough to know a some of the notes, I’ll bet someone here could tell you the name of the tune!
Tom
That’s the magic of “Reverse ABC”.
Eh?
yeah, ok, let’s see…
it’s in G major.
Goes like this (hopefully you can pick this out… it’s my own version of ABC I guess!!)
GGBG dGBA GF#GB dCBC A…
That’s the A part. The B part starts like this:
ggGA B…
ring a bell for anybody? Sorry, it’s not much to go on eh…
CBA?
Center for Backyard Astrophysics: http://cba.phys.columbia.edu
OK, a bit of elaboration on the A part:
starts like this - GGBG dGBA GF#GB dCBC A…
then at some point goes like this - af# gedB GGBG dGBA GF#GB dCBC ABCd eCge dBCA GDEF# - then starts over…
erm, go ahead and hum us a few bars, never know we may know it.
Well so far, that’s just not working out…
But I’m determined to find this tune!! When I do, maybe - just maybe - I’ll let you all know what it is 
Sorry, I thought it had a chance of working out. Maybe you should change the title of the post to something that suggests you are looking for advice? C&F folks love to give advice (much like I’m doing here, except my advice to you is unsolicited) 
Sorry it didn’t work out.
Tom
A bit of that sounds like “Sweet Flowers of Miltown”
Dunno if that helps?
Edited to add, on WFO2, disk 1, track one, after The Roscommon.
X:1
T:Moxy’s Mystery Tune
M:6/8
L:1/8
R:Reel
Q:1/2=80
K:G
|GGBG dGBA |GF#GB dcBc 
|af# |:gedB GGBG |dGBA GF#GB |dcBc ABcd |ecge dBcA GDEF#
Hi Moxy,
I’ve posted what you’ve given us so far into ABC, take the above and slap it in here:
http://www.concertina.net/tunes_convert.html
Then hit submit, and listen to the midi and se if it’s sounds right so far…
I’m sure someone like Peter Laban will recognise it.
Oh cool, yeah, something like that (obviously there are bits missing)!
Gary, it’s not the Sweet Flowers of Miltown, sadly, but thanks for the suggestion.
Martin, what a cool tool! Try putting this into it:
X:1
T:Moxy’s Mystery Tune
M:6/8
L:1/8
R:Reel
Q:1/2=80
K:G
|GGBG dGBA |GF#GB dcBc |ABcd eccc |ecaf# gedB
|GGBG dGBA |GF#GB dcBc |ABcd ecge |dBcA GDEF#
|GGBG dGBA |GF#GB dcBc |ABcd eccc |ecaf# gedB
|GGBG dGBA |GF#GB dcBc |ABcd ecge |dBcA GGGf#
|ggGA BBBd |ggf#g edeg |aeed eeeg |aaed c#def#
|ggGA BBBd |ggf#g edcB |ABcd ecge |dBcA GGGf#
|ggGA BBBd |ggf#g edeg |aeed eeeg |aaed c#def#
|ggGA BBBd |ggf#g edcB |ABcd ecge |dBcA GDEF#
(except when I put it in, it wouldn’t play the c#'s in the B part…)
That’s what the tune really sounds like (more or less). Anybody know it now?
(Tom - I’ve also changed the subject line of this thread, hopefully successfully - that’s a very good suggestion!! OK, I wasn’t successful… how the heck do you change it!!! YAY, I figured it out )
4/4 insted of 6/8?
yes, of course… it’s a reel, not a jig. Not sure why it did that? Oh, I see it now, it should still play reasonably as a reel when you listen to the midi file!
But it should be 4/4…
ABC format uses ^ before the note for sharp not # following. Also putting in sharps for the F is redundant because you have already specified that in the choice of key. Try this…
X:1
T:Moxy’s Mystery Tune
M:4/4
L:1/8
R:Reel
Q:1/2=80
K:G
|GGBG dGBA |GFGB dcBc |ABcd eccc |ecaf gedB
|GGBG dGBA |GFGB dcBc |ABcd ecge |dBcA GDEF
|GGBG dGBA |GFGB dcBc |ABcd eccc |ecaf gedB
|GGBG dGBA |GFGB dcBc |ABcd ecge |dBcA GGGf
|ggGA BBBd |ggfg edeg |aeed eeeg |aaed ^cdef
|ggGA BBBd |ggfg edcB |ABcd ecge |dBcA GGGf
|ggGA BBBd |ggfg edeg |aeed eeeg |aaed ^cdef
|ggGA BBBd |ggfg edcB |ABcd ecge |dBcA GDEF:|
Cheers,
David
P.S. FWIW, the last couple of measures for both parts is reminiscent of The Mason’s Apron.
Yeah, that sounds more like what I had in my head. Thanks for suggesting the changes (I’ve never used ABC notation before!!)
Why does the concertina site use the piano sound anyway? Shouldn’t it use a concertina sound?.. Just a thought.
I looked up Mason’s Apron on thesession.org and I don’t think that’s it either…
I’ve considered the possibility that this tune isn’t in Gmajor…
Man, this is frustrating. All I have is the tune in my head, I can’t find it anywhere on my iRiver either!!
Well it certainly was a helluva good first try. Better than I managed on my first go.
Cheers,
David
My mistake there, I grabbed your notes and stuck them into another ABC I had to hand that hapenned to be a jig. That field creates the time signature at the start of the tune, but you can actually put any number of notes/beats in a bar, and it’ll print or play just the same.
Many’s the time we’ve bemoaned the plonky piano sound of the midi (the chord backing on jigs is particularly risible) but hey, it’s a free tool, and it gets a basic job done pretty nicely.
Mox, is it possible you’ve composed this tune yourself? A few times I’ve heard a tune playing in my head, ABC’d it, and posted it on a forum asking what is is, only to find it’s original to me. Listen to enough ITM music, and eventually those synapses start to spark. I try to keep a recording device to hand all the time these days (my tiny digital camera has a neat audio recording feature) hin case the muse strike, and I need to hum a tune at 3am before it’s lost to posterity.
I suggest you post your ABC’d tune in a thread on The Session
the people there are very knowledgeable, discussions about tunes abound, and if it is something you heard somewhere, I think they’d have a good chance of recognising it.