Irish Flute Tunes

I heard this reel from the fiddle playing of John Doherty.  He played it in "G".  I've tried it in "G" and then "A".  I'm told a nine pint coggie is a vessel which holds nine pints of beer.  I know a few two-legged coggies (although the number of legs  diminishes as the pint count increases).

I've never investigated what this name is about.  It's probably just "Fasten the Legging" but even that's quite far from the first think I'd look up in a phrasebook prior to going on holiday.

A nice simple reel.

Here's a Sliabh Luachra thing, I think.

A gardening Jig

Here's a good reel for the flute.

A ringing jig.

Don't be late.

Here's a Denis Murphy tune with a great name.

Here's a good standard jig.  It seems to get  a bit neglected these days.

I've always wanted this to be the salamander reel. The picture is of a salamander from the Spanish Armada. Maybe it came from Salamanca. It was very kind of the Ulster Museum to lend it to me.

I have fairly vague memories of the lats time there was a new century.  I suspect the title of this tune refers to the one before that.  The absence of my having been born adds to my amnesia regarding that event.  I hope I've at least remembered the tune.  I think it is in O'Neill's and on the "Contentment is Wealth" record of Sean Keane and Matt Molloy.  You could check those sources for a bit of...

A version of his tune is in Ceol Rince na hÉireann 3 under this name. I've never heard a name for it in "real life" or "reel life".

This is what this reel is called on Noel Hill and Tony McMahon's LP. I have the end a bit iffy ish - especially the first time round. I think it recovers after that but I then smelt my dinner when I was nearly finished and my mouth began to water. I'm a fairly bad cook (potatoes, tinned tuna and the rest of yesterday's packet of salad) but I was hungry. That'll learn me. I hope the tune's nicer th...

Here's a particularly flutey reel.

There aren't all that many notes in this tune.  I sometimes think that makes it a bit tricky but most of the time I'm not thinking about anything at all. It can be found on Noel Hill and Tony McMahon's i gCnoc na Graí record.  They seem to have been able to work it out OK.

Here's a reel associated with the Roscommon flute player of this name.

Here's the one after "The Galtee Rangers".

Here's a popular reel.

I was asked by David T to play this tune. He heard it from a Cd of Harry B who called it "The Old maids of G". I learned it years ago from a book by Brian V under the name "Johnny When You D".

Here's a Sliabh Luachra reel.  It's name makes me hungry and I'm away to fry some breakfast.

Here's one I heard on a record of Frankie Gavin and Paul Brock.  I think it's also on Frankie Gavin's flute LP which is one of the best commercial flute recordings I've encountered.  I don't spend all my time encountering commercial flute recordings.  If I did I don't know what my opinion would be.

This tune sometimes gets "Wellington's" reel and probably other names to boot.  It's also in "A" on occasions.  I've played it in "G" here.  An easy life is often best.  (Fiddle players don't necessarily like "A" either as it makes them drop the fiddle trying to reach the higher notes.

Here's what I remember of this tune.

I'm not sure whether the title refers to a penny dropping in Castleblaney or to something sticky.  Which ever if the above (or adjacent) is true, the tune seems to have stuck the years OK.