what are your favorite tunes to play right now?

tommyk · Post by **tommyk** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 11:30 am

The Road to Buggleskelly
The Milky Way
The Hop of the Rabbit
Ross' Reel No.4
Cooley's Reel
The Wedding Reel
Lord Mayo
Carolan's Draught
Swallowtail Jig
Stolen Apples
The Snowy Path
Cronin's Hornpipe

Tommy Kochel
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Miwokhill · Post by **Miwokhill** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 11:55 am

This is really great hearing what people are playing as well as getting some tunes to check out. -(getting up there with the biscuits and gravy thread!) Another tune I've been playing is The Merry Blacksmith (Collin's Reel) but my favorite version so far is out of a mandolin book by Steve Kaufmann. -- Another non-whistle version I like is of Greencastle Hornpipe. The one I like best is on a Norman Blake mandolin video. It's probably done more old time style but I like this version best of those I've heard.

feadogin · Post by **feadogin** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 11:59 am

Wow! Thanks for all the Sean sa Ceo recommendations! I'm always amazed by the helpfulness of people here.

Justine

stiofan · Post by **stiofan** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 3:35 pm

tunes I'm working on and/or play regularly -

Ships are Sailing
White Petticoat
O'Keefe's Slide
Maid of Mt. Cisco
Ballydesmond Polkas (I,II & III)
Mist on the Mountain
Shores of Lough Gowna
Young Tom Ennis
Bobby Casey's aka Humours of Tullycrine
King of the Fairies
Autumn Child
Crested Hens
An Buachaillin Ban
Aisling Gheal

et al...

gonzo914 · Post by **gonzo914** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 8:14 pm

Curently learning -- Doctor O'Neill and Take the Bull by the Horns.

Currently playing a lot just because I like playing them -- The Diplodocus; Blackthorne Stick/Morrison's Jig; Liz Kelly/Off She Goes/Dingle Regatta; Gallagher's Frolics/Jig of Slurs.

I'm also working on a catchy little tune called Gan Ainm (the jig, not the reel) that goes kind of nice after the Diplodocus, but I can't find the sheetmusic, and on a the air from the Curly Howard version of the Alphabet Song, although I'm having a little trouble with the key change at R.

Someday I may learn a reel.

dubhlinn · Post by **dubhlinn** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 8:18 pm

Gonzo,
There are hundreds of tunes called Gan Ainm.

In Gaelic it means Name unknown.

Slan,
D.

izzarina · Post by **izzarina** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 9:35 pm

dubhlinn wrote:Gonzo,
There are hundreds of tunes called Gan Ainm.

In Gaelic it means Name unknown.

Slan,
D.

there seems to be an awful lot of poems that are "author unknown" as well. I used to think that Author Unknown was the poet's actual name, and was stunned to see how many poems he (or she) had penned

But that was quite some time ago that I believed that

Oops, sorry. Looks like I'm guilty of threadjacking again

JillyKB · Post by **JillyKB** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 10:31 pm

The Strayaway Child and the Blarney Pilgrim at the moment. Also I love playing "Gift of Love" from my hymnal (I think that the melody for it is based of The Water is Wide... not sure though)

gonzo914 · Post by **gonzo914** » Thu Nov 18, 2004 12:09 pm

dubhlinn wrote: . . . . There are hundreds of tunes called Gan Ainm . . .

Oh man, tell me about it. You guys got more of those that we got blues songs about my woman what done me wrong.

The one I'm looking for goes:
"Dum, Deedily deedily deedily deedily, deedily, didily, dodally dodally,
Deedily deedily deedily deedily, deedily, didily, dodally dum."

It's track number 4 on "One More Time " (McComiskey, Mulvihill and McCleod) -- http://www.thesession.org/recordings/display.php/255 .

Do not confuse it with the other three tunes of the same name on this CD. They are hormpipes.

The CD (see http://www.culkinschool.com/music.htm ) uses the tune's American name -- Jig: Name Unknown (Feis speed 120) -- so it's easy to tell it from the hornpipes, which are all named Hornpipe: Name Unknown.

As a side note, this CD is a good one for learning by ear. It's produced by the Culkin School of Traditional Irish Dance, and the tunes are slowed down for dancers to practice with. Even the fastest ones are still slower than show-off warp speed, so they are easy to learn from.

gonzo

epengr · Post by **epengr** » Thu Nov 18, 2004 1:12 pm

Eanach Dhuin (So Beautiful! Can anyone recommend similar airs?)
Tam Lin (Hardest song I've Learned so far, one been play for 2-3 months)
Aaron Boat (Another nice slow song)

TomB · Post by **TomB** » Thu Nov 18, 2004 1:25 pm

gonzo914 wrote:[
The CD (see http://www.culkinschool.com/music.htm ) uses the tune's American name -- Jig: Name Unknown (Feis speed 120) -- so it's easy to tell it from the hornpipes, which are all named Hornpipe: Name Unknown.

As a side note, this CD is a good one for learning by ear. It's produced by the Culkin School of Traditional Irish Dance, and the tunes are slowed down for dancers to practice with. Even the fastest ones are still slower than show-off warp speed, so they are easy to learn from.

gonzo

Wow, you might be interested to know, then again, you may not, that I know Sean Culkin, the founder of this dance school. When I still lived in D.C., we worked at the same law firm. It's because of Sean that my wife and I got involved in Irish set dancing, and how my wife also got involved in step dancing.

Sean moved on from the firm where we worked in order to set up the school and teach on a full-time basis. As you can see from his website, he seems to be very successful. Sean is a great dancer and very enthusiastic about all thing Irish, particularly dance.

All the Best, Tom

LeeMarsh · Post by **LeeMarsh** » Thu Nov 18, 2004 2:34 pm

Current Favorites:

Leon's Waltz
Month of January
Culloden's Harvest
Lord Mayo

Current In Development:

Loftus Jones
The Butterfly
An Altan Set of:
- Jenny Nettles Fancy (Tommy Peoples),
- The Windmill,
- Fintan McManus

Starting to Refresh (Carols).

God Rest You Merry Gentlemen
O Come, O Come, Emmanuel
Angels We Have Heard On High
We Wish You a Merry Christmas
We Three Kings of Orient Are
new ones:
- Christ Child Lullaby
- O-Soalin' (The Wassail Song)

Wish list of tunes next to be learned:

Jug of Punch
Bricklayers Lament (or Why Paddy's not at Work Today)

Miwokhill · Post by **Miwokhill** » Sun Mar 06, 2005 11:56 am

Here it is. I was going to suggest doing a search but when I did it came up with 4500 matches, none of them seeming to be about tunes! -mike

Cynth · Post by **Cynth** » Sun Mar 06, 2005 2:06 pm

I don't have any to choose from. The one tune that I can play in a pretty sprightly way is a Scottish song called The Haughs of Cromdale. And I do like it very, very much.

buddhu · Post by **buddhu** » Sun Mar 06, 2005 5:32 pm

Cliche all the way!

Kesh
Blackthorn Stick
Fermoy Lassies
Chief O'Neill's
Swallow's Tail (reel)
Rolling in the Ryegrass
Spancil Hill (!!!)
Kid on the Mountain
Longford Collector
Dingle Regatta