slow haunting tunes not itm
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slow haunting tunes not itm
does anybody have any suggestions for some slow haunting tunes that arent irish traditional ?
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Re: slow haunting tunes not itm
Here's a "slow haunter" called She Said No (1.1 megabyte MP3 file), which I think of as more of a Scottish-inspired tune than an Irish one...I composed it around 1987 when I was spending some time around Skye and the western Highlands. I didn't have a name for it at first, but when I played it for Chris Abell (the whistle and flute maker), he said "it sounds like she said no," and so I thought, fine, there's the title!
This recording was made about 10 years later at the home of Tommy Byrnes in Massachusetts. Tommy added the obligatory "Celtic Mist" synthesizer sounds and stuck a mic out the window to catch a thunderstorm that happened to be passing by that evening as we were recording. The tapping sounds you hear are water dropping onto the tin roof of a toolshed out in his yard; you can also hear robins singing and calling from time to time.
Total Celtic schmaltz, but I do like the tune and play it every now and then.
This recording was made about 10 years later at the home of Tommy Byrnes in Massachusetts. Tommy added the obligatory "Celtic Mist" synthesizer sounds and stuck a mic out the window to catch a thunderstorm that happened to be passing by that evening as we were recording. The tapping sounds you hear are water dropping onto the tin roof of a toolshed out in his yard; you can also hear robins singing and calling from time to time.
Total Celtic schmaltz, but I do like the tune and play it every now and then.
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Well thanks, and by coincidence it happens to be my birthday today too, so happy birthday to us (and to Virginia Woolf, Robert Burns, and Somerset Maugham)!John F. wrote:Brad--
Today is my birthday, and it's a glorious morning here in California. Your song was the first thing I sat down and listened to. Thank you for that! (Schmaltz can be a good thing!)
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I totally agree!tim-hart wrote:Lovely piece. Nicely played.
Congrats Brad! Don't be so hard with yourself, everyone needs that "schmalz" from time to time.
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Well the thing is, I asked her very politely to go jump off a cliff, and she said no! ('8)')phoebe wrote:That was lovely. IMHO, "she" must have been crazy.
Seriously, there was no "she" in the picture as far as I remember. It's just that when I played it, Chris (Abell) said, "it sounds like she said no."