Name this tune!

j dasinger · Post by **j dasinger** » Mon Sep 27, 2004 9:29 pm

Hi all,
I keep hearing this tune which is played as incidental background music on my local public radio station. I was wondering if anyone could I.D. it? I don't know if it's trad or modern, or even irish, but it definitely has that flavor. It's a fiddle recording. This is how I would play it on a D whistle. But the original may be in a different key. I have a sort of malleable sense of key.

toughknot · Post by **toughknot** » Mon Sep 27, 2004 10:16 pm

Very well, I name this tune Eddie.

colomon · Post by **colomon** » Mon Sep 27, 2004 10:25 pm

It's a standard Irish slipjig, "A Fig for a Kiss".

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Mon Sep 27, 2004 10:26 pm

toughknot wrote:Very well, I name this tune Eddie.

Why not Mark?

j dasinger · Post by **j dasinger** » Mon Sep 27, 2004 11:12 pm

Thanks Colomon!

Toughknot and Cranberry need a life...

James

toughknot · Post by **toughknot** » Mon Sep 27, 2004 11:20 pm

Life is to important to take seriously.

Martin Milner · Post by **Martin Milner** » Tue Sep 28, 2004 3:32 am

toughknot wrote:Life is to important to take seriously.

Is there something missing, Gordian?

Either:

Life is too important to yadda yadda

or:

Life is to important what "XYZ" is to take seriously

john swinton · Post by **john swinton** » Tue Sep 28, 2004 5:06 am

I Name the tune mardie

amar · Post by **amar** » Tue Sep 28, 2004 8:54 am

mardie? that don't mean nuthin

dubhlinn · Post by **dubhlinn** » Tue Sep 28, 2004 9:10 am

amar wrote:mardie? that don't mean nuthin

In this part of the World,it means to be grouchy or cranky.

Slan,
D.

jbarter · Post by **jbarter** » Tue Sep 28, 2004 9:17 am

amar wrote:mardie? that don't mean nuthin

It means tha's gorra munk on lad.

jbarter · Post by **jbarter** » Tue Sep 28, 2004 9:18 am

amar wrote:mardie? that don't mean nuthin

It means tha's gorra munk on lad.

toughknot · Post by **toughknot** » Tue Sep 28, 2004 11:24 am

Martin Milner wrote:
toughknot wrote:Life is to important to take seriously.
Is there something missing, Gordian?

Either:

Life is too important to yadda yadda

or:

Life is to important what "XYZ" is to take seriously

Life is+ (to+o)+important to take seriously
My father was an English teacher and I was an Honors English student at Saint Flannens College Ennis Co. Clare and it shows ,Ain't not? I spent most of Algebra class drawing in the margins of the book.

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Tue Sep 28, 2004 11:26 am

toughknot wrote: I spent most of Algebra class drawing in the margins of the book.

so did I, though I was able to activate that portion of my brain later in life to take the GRE.

Leel · Post by **Leel** » Tue Sep 28, 2004 11:39 am

Aw - Let's give it a last name too,

How about:

Mardie Gras?

But actually, I guess we should stick to it's real (reel? - oh yeah, it's a slip jig, sorry) name. "A Fig for a Kiss" is a great tune.

I find it one of the easiest 'Slips'. They generally tend to give me a headache.

Also, try playing it slow and 'hauntingly' on a Low whistle, a suggestion I got from Tygress awhile back when I asked about haunting tunes for Halloween.

Different, but way-cool! And spooky