Irish Flute Tunes

Here's a fiddle tune.  The flute's only really a fiddle with more holes and fewer strings so it's probably acceptable to play fiddle tunes on it.  It even starts with the same letter. I vaguely remember being in a group once, many years ago, and "Mooncoin" was the polite one of the two names it had.  That's my only connection with Mooncoins.

I've just been asked to play this tune so here is an attempt at it. I'm about to go and do the washing up now and am feeling a bit uneasy about what may be lurking under last night's saucepans. A few wriggling elvers may actually be quite an effective dish dirt dislodger though.

Here's a reel I was asked to play. My postings of late have been about as frequent as my blacksmith sightings, merry or otherwise, but being reminded of this tune at least stirred me into a brief flurry of activity. This particular tune is very suitable for the flute and provides ample opportunity for anvilesque hammering sounds on the D notes. On this occasion I seem to have let most of these opp...

Here's a common reel.  I thought I'd probably have played this one already but I didn't see it on the site.  Maybe I called it by another name ("don't kiss me Kate" perhaps). I hope this version is OK.  My recall facility for tunes has been a bit vague lately.

I'm not really the right person to be playing this great composer's tunes but as I'm the one who happens to be nearest this computer, I'll have to do.  I've just called this No.1 to mark it out from any subsequent PF reels which I might play in future.

This is yet another tardy response to a request to record a tune.  I'm delighted to be asked to play specific tunes as it saves me having to think them up for myself. I had to look this one up on the internet as I didn't know it.  I hope my dot to note transfer has allowed the tune to arrive without being too scathed. I think this tune is in B minor.  My bad spelling allows me to think of digging...

Here's a fairly popular one, as are many enchanted things and persons.

Here's another tune I was asked for.  I've tried to oblige but I haven't quite got my sea legs.  I might have been better scuttling this attempt.

Here's another request.  I'm afraid I didn't recognise the name of the tune so I looked it up in www land.  It sort of sounds familiar; mouth organs spring to mind (if that's a thing they can do) and by the end of the tune I thought I maybe knew the start.  The version is at the mercy of whoever put it on the internet and whether he or she has the use of a reliable set of ears.

Here's a tune I was asked to play.  I'm sorry it took me so long getting round to it.  There are a few other tune requests that I'm currently in the process of taking even longer over. I played a three part version at the end of this recording.  I've heard three parts from a few people, one being Paddy Canny.  My problem regerding part 3 may be that in fact Paddy can whereas I canny play it but I...

I was asked to post this tune and am grateful to have been asked.  I don't know why I hadn't thought of it myself.  The setting here may be a bit dodgy but that may help to take the bad look off some of the other tunes I have played recently. I have another reel which I've been asked to play but I think I'll need to excavate a particular tape recording before I can chance the second half of it.  I...

Here's another Martin Wynne thing. I'm not sure where I learned it but it seems to have been hovering about in quite a few places. If I can think of MW3 I'll have a got at it too.

I was asked ages ago to play this tune.  I'm sorry it took so long but I always got distracted any time I set about playing it. I think this is the number two variety of Martin Wynne reel.  I'll have to get round to recording at least one other so as to bring about a Wynne Wynne situation.

I can't think of anything to write about this reel so

I can't promise that this tune will provoke as enthusiastic a reaction in other people as it did in Bess. Maybe she didn't get out much. I think it's a decent tune all the same which maybe doesn't get out enough either.

I was asked to play a reel of this name.  I know there are several boys, and more than one Ballynahinch for that matter, in this country so I hope I have correctly identified all parties involved.  If I have got the wrong tune please let me know and I'll try to mend my ways.

I've finally got around to playing this one which I was asked to play ages ago. The second part has always been a bit of a mystery to me. I hope I haven't made it even more of one with this effort. I think some of the notes are right and the order in which they appear is mroe or lses KO. (This tune had a helium fit earlier. If it is still all Pinky and Perky tomorrow I'll record it again. In the m...

This is my recollection of a fairly common reel.  I was asked to record this one and I has taken me that long to do so that I can't even remember when I was asked.  Maybe I wasn't asked at all.  I think I have at least one other reel I'm meant to be putting on as well.  Once I improve the organisational state of my life even to the lower reaches of chaos I will do the other tune too.

Here's another Paddy Ryan's Dream.  Mr. Ryan must have been some sleeper. I think this one is close to the version that John Doherty used to call "Mooney's Reel".

Here's my attempt to play this tune as requested to do so.  I'm not too familiar with playing it on a flute and I fear that my playing may be straying in the direction of being the sort of dream Paddy Ryan, or anyone else for that matter, may get after consuming too much cheese at bedtime. I know a different version of this tune which I'll maybe try once this one I've woken up from this one

This is a very popular reel which I just remembered I hadn't played on this site yet.  I'm running out of popular tunes to play by this stage so when I do recall one I get a temporary happiness boost which is most welcome, especially on a dark Sunday evening like this one.  I try not to remember tunes on Friday afternoons as happiness boosts on those occasions would send me over.  I'm not sure abo...

I think that daycaps, mornigcaps and other headgear have left me vexed and clueless regarding the name of this reel. It was recorded by Michael Coleman around 80 years ago. I don't think he had a name for it. I'm not sure where this name came out of but it conjures up some interesting images though I can't quite tell what they are of.

I was asked to record this which is a good thing as otherwise my memory wouldn't have stumbled upon it. Now my mental recall has been provoked, I hope this is the same Reel of Rio that got lost in it years ago. I don't know what the "Rio" in question is. Maybe its just that the name sounds better that "The Reel of Lagan".

Here's the one which comes after the one which I haven't posted yet.  This one and the one which isn't here are tunes from Fermanagh.

Here's another port gan ainm. Níl port le hainm fágtha agam faoin am seo. I seem to have run out of names of tunes to post so I'm going to have to start ganning ainms for the next while. I learned this jig from a piper who has an ainm - Robbie Hannan - but whose ainm for this jig escapes me just now. I was never sure just how the two parts of the tune got on with each other but sometimes I can sen...