Irish Flute Tunes

Here's a slow tune for a change.  It's probably easier than a lot of slow tunes to pick up and, unlike a good book, I'm sure it will be even easier to put down.  If I get enough requests to so do, I'll remove it.

Here's a polka. My apologies to polka land people for my interpretation of it. A lot of them are good tunes for learning and are well suited to the flute.

Here's a Sligo Maidish type of reel.  There are different version's of this one around.  This one's more or less the same as the one in the book Alan's Irish Fiddler. I'm only after finding a link with all the tunes in that book:  http://www.oldmusicproject.com/allans.html They also seem to have O'Neill's Music of Ireland on the site.  Aren't people kind?

I saw this name for this tune in a book.  I can't remember which book at this stage.  My memory is like the result of a vagueness generator being put in a cheap food blender (both food and blender).  This reel sounded familiar to me when I recorded it but that was a couple of long days ago.  A lot of water has passed under the bridge since then.  Most of the water was mixed with other, more potent...

Here's a standard tune, albeit with a lot of non standard versions.  It is often played after "Down The Broom". I hope it really does go like this.

Here's a tune that's listed in Ceol Rince na hÉireann 3, No. 188, as "Gorman's Reel".  It sounds a bit like an A minor "Sporting Nell".  I don't know when a minor sporting Nell is like a sort of under 18 camogie player. Whatever about that, it's a nice reel and easy enough in this key.

Here's a fiddle tune which I hope is flutable.

I think this jig is associated with Jimmy Lyons, a fiddle player who came from Teelin in Co. Donegal.

Here's a requested reel. I'm told that when asked was it a piece of string it replied that it was afraid not. I learned this as "Bridie Morley's" (or was it "The Bride Morley"?) from Packie Duignan's playing. The version in Ceol Rince na hÉireann vol 2, number 229, is almost the same as this. It's a great tune and thanks Mary for suggesting it.

Here's another polka.  This one's from a wee bit further north.  It's a good tune for the flute.

Here's a popular polka.  I think I'm from a bit too far north to understand them but I can but try.

This is a tune with a great name. I'll tidy up this post tomorrow. I'm feeling too vague just now. Today is now tomorrow and I'm fit to add that I heard this one on Paddy Carty's LP. It's named after "The Balloon" which was a pub in Fulham, London owned by Con Curtin from Kerry.

Here's a reel which can be found on a record of Tommy Peoples and Matt Molloy - all quite quick and E flattish as far as I remember.

I can't write much about this tune due to my having an industrial strength hangover to wrestle with.  I recorded this tune yesterday, before I went out.  I recall feeling quite well then.

Here's a jig I was asked to put on.  I looked it up on the internet and got these particular "Google's Frolics".  I hope they are the correct frolics. I've known this tune for years but I never knew its name.  I've learned more tune names in the last 2 months than in the preceding 2 decades.

I'm not sure why it is.

Here's a nice plain reel.  It's on, among other places, "The Eagle's Whistle" LP of Michael Tubridy which is well worth a listen.

Here's a good reel.  I must try excavating my Matt Molloy record which has this tune living in its groove.

More potatoes (I was trying to remember this last night and then I saw it on the Chiff and Fipple site: http://chiffboard.mati.ca/viewtopic.php?t=50746 - Fipple & Chips)

Here's a very common jig. The "Walsh" seems fairly interchangeable with "Welsh". The "Tatter Jack" bit refers to "An tAthair Jack", i.e. Father Jack.

Here's a popular tune which is handy on most instruments. Judging from this recording the flute mightn't be one of them but that's just my fault. It sounds grand on the flute when other people play it. I had a bit of bother at the end (more Fermoy Losses than Lasses) as I heard the potatoes boiling over in the kitchen when I was nearly done. There should be enough of the tune intact up to that poi...

Here's today's carbohydrate ration in a reel.

I usually can't remember which order the parts go in this tune.  They sort of go round and round.  Hopefully they're OKish here.

Here's a reel which I think I remember being on an LP of Julia and Billy Clifford.  I just stole it from O'Neill's 1001.  Only about another 987 to go.

Here's a good reel.  That's the main thing.