Irish Flute Tunes

Here's yet another one that got away.  This is close to the version the box player Joe Cooley from Peterswell, Co. Galway, played.  He mightn't have had a blocked left ear, though.  I think it's either blocked with bits of forgotten tunes or else maybe that's were all the odd socks are. The stereo version of this reel is very popular in sessions.

Here's another tune which I thought I must have recorded already but doesn't come up in a search of this site.  I suppose it's like so many other things I think I've ever learned which don't come up in a search of my head either. I seem to remember this reel being quite pleasant and also quite popular in sessions.

I did a search for "Fairy" on this site and nothing came back for it.  I'll take that to mean that this is the first time I have posted this tune.  It's a fairly popular fairy tune.

Here's a reel which I think comes from Fermanagh.  Eddie Duffy came from Fermanagh so that's who I'm associating the tune with.  This is all a but tenuous but it might be right despite my best efforts.

I was asked to post this popular jig so here it is.  I've recently heard some people playing a couple of extra parts at the end of this tune.  I get the impression that the only function of the other parts is to make those who play them feel pleased with themselves for being able to remember four bits all at once.  As a two part jig I think it an excellent tune.

I'm putting on a Father Kelly's (2) without first posting an FK's (1).  I know that this is the wrong way to go about things and I also know that this tune isn't either of the tunes which I think really are called Father Kelly's.  I saw this tune with the FK tag on it in a book.  If anyone has another name for it, please let me know.

Thanks for the name, Harry. I'm glad it wasn't Nelly. I've been trying to be organised by recording tunes in advance and then posting them over athe subsequent days. This is OK when I have names for them but I've labelled this mp3 file as "ganainm17-18" and I can't really remember what it is. I suspect that it is a reel from which appears on pages 17 - 18 of the book "A Trip To Sligo". If I'm righ...

I've not much to say about this one.  It's called by this name in the "Trip to Sligo" book.  Some of it (the tune and / or the book) is fairly pleasant.

Here's a barndance by way of a change from all the tunes that aren't barndances.  This tune is called "Jamesy Gannon's Barndance" on a record of Michael Gorman, the Sligo fiddle player but then so are about half a dozen other tunes on the same recording.  I've also heard this tune in more Northern climbs such as Donegal.  Here it is in no geographical setting at all.

Here's a popular reel.  I've seen this reel called "Dillon's Reel" on www.thesession.org where someone has written that this isn't called the Bellharbour Reel. Wharever about its name, some of its notes are pleasant enough.

Here's a good simple jig.  As for the sentiment in the title; well ...

Here's a nice hornpipe.  The second part is supposed to have a couple of D sharps in it but my flute wasn't really convinced.

Here's a tune that was probably not written by a horse.  Very few are.  In fact, it was definitely not written by a horse.  It was written by Co. Galway flute player Vincent Broderick.

I put this on before but in company.  I've just been asked to play it so here it is on its own.  It's only about 9:00am which is a bit early for trimming velvet or anything more elaborate than toast or toenails but I did my poor best.

Here's a reel from the late, great Paddy Mills from North Mayo.

Here's a Donegal version of The Maids of Castlebar.  A don't know whether there's a Mayo version of The Donegal Reel. I'll record The Maids of Castlebar as well when I get a chance so that the reference to McFarley's being a version of it makes some sort of sense.

Here's a popular and melodic jig which is called by this name in Ceol Rince na hÉireann 5.  It must have been taken down a long time ago.  I don't remember there having been a sun to set recently.

Here's a popular jig dedicated to some semi fossilized plants which usually get thown on a fire.

Here's one which Seán McGuire played.  It's reasonably flutable for all that.

Here's a very very popular reel.  As for the activity described in the title, I know little of it.  The limit of my experience of plumage related activities would be the odd unsuccessful attempt at ruffling.

The Donegal fiddle player John Doherty played a few tunes which he called "The Cameronian Reel", none of which are the normal one of that name. This one was also recorded by Michael Coleman at some stage but I can't remember what he called it. I've played the first part single here. It maybe ought to be double, or maybe I would have been better leaving both parts out completely.

I never had a name for this jig but it appears as "The Broken Lantern" in Ceol Rince na hÉireann vol. 5.   This is more or less the version in that book too.

Here's a popular reel which is sometimes also called "The Sword in The Hand" - worth two in the bush.

If this playing of this reel sounds bad, I'm blaming a big toe infection.  It's making tapping time very uncomfortable.

The name of this reel always reminds me of wallpaper.  I suspect I'm missing the point but I see more walls than birds or other flocking creatures in my daily life.