Irish Flute Tunes

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Traditional Irish Tunes Played on the Flute (iflute@googlemail.com)

Episodes

  • Clarkson's reel

    07/04/2020 Duration: 02min

    Tune number 748 from O'Neill's Dance Music of Ireland - 1001 gems  There are 1000 tunes in this book with better names but only some of them are better tunes.      

  • The Cat in the Corner (jig)

    25/03/2020 Duration: 01min

    O'Neill's Dance Music of Ireland tune number 129   I probably would have been better getting the cat to play it.  

  • The Day We Paid the Rent (reel)

    24/03/2020 Duration: 01min

    I play this tune by direct debit.  

  • The Wren Hornpipe

    23/03/2020 Duration: 02min

    Here's another tune from O'Neill's Dance Music of Ireland. I hadn't noticed it before, despite its being there since 1907. I don't remember ever seeing a wren either. Maybe because they're so small.  

  • The Tongs by the Fire (jig)

    22/03/2020 Duration: 02min

    Here's another tune from Francis O'Neill's 'Dance Music of Ireland - 1001 Gems'. My understanding of 'gem' in today's context is a tune without syncopation and notes keeping close company with other notes they don't get on with.  

  • Molly What Ails You? (reel)

    21/03/2020 Duration: 01min

    Here's tune number 652 in O'Neill's Dance Music of Ireland.   It's the best tune between tunes 651 and 653.  

  • Jackson's censored Reel

    10/06/2019 Duration: 02min

    As requested, here's an attempt at a flute version of a steadfastly fiddle tune.     X: 1 T:Jackson's Reel (sort of flute-friendly'ish) R: reel M: 4/4 L: 1/8 K: Dmaj |:F|D2FD EDFE| DEFD EAcE|GE ~E2 GABd| ceAc dBAF| D2FD EDFE| DEFD EFGE| ABce dBAG| F/2G/2F EG FDD:| |:g|fd d2 ~d3f| edef edcB|A2cA BAcB| ABcA Bcde| fd d2 ~d3f| edef edcB|ABde faea|1fd d2 ~d3:|2fddc d/2d/2c dB|| A3A B2AG| FAAF G/2F/2E F/2E/2D| ~E3F GFEG| Agec dBAF| D2FD EDFE| DEFD EG ~G2| ABce dBAG| FAEG FDAF||   Here's the uncut version: https://thesession.org/tunes/1665    

  • Money in Every Pocket but My Own

    08/06/2019 Duration: 01min

    Here's a tune high in vitamin C. Also called the 'Belfast March', named after a town low in every vitamin.    https://thesession.org/tunes/5000

  • The Church Street polka

    07/06/2019 Duration: 01min

    Here's a tune I was asked to post here. It's a great tune but I can't play polkas, so I never play them, so I can't play them, so I never play them, so ...   The associated polka dots are here: https://thesession.org/tunes/1560  

  • The London Clog

    19/05/2019 Duration: 02min

    Here's a tune which Tom Morrison recorded i 1928. London clogs are probably mainly fatbergs in the sewers these days.   Here it is played properly: https://archive.org/details/TomMorrisonTheLondonClog   Here it is written out badly:

  • The Milky Way (reel)

    11/05/2019 Duration: 02min

    This reel was made in space for the flute; sorry this effort isn't as out of this world as the title would suggest.    

  • Peg McGrath's reel

    10/05/2019 Duration: 01min

    Here's a tune written by Josie McDermott in honour of Peg McGrath who made one of the nicest flute noises I've ever heard.  

  • The Whistling Postman - jig

    09/05/2019 Duration: 02min

    A short tune to fill a spare minute. I don't know how much postmen/postwomen (or even postmodernists) whistle now under the burden of Amazon boxes.  

  • Jack Rowe - reel

    04/05/2019 Duration: 02min

    Here's a tune I first heard from a recording of John McGuire - Seán's father. The guy in the photo was Jack Rowe - looks like he could blow a flute with the back of his neck. Some feat. Some neck.    

  • The Mount Collins Reel (The Girls of Farranfore)

    03/05/2019 Duration: 01min

    Here's a reel which you can hear Denis Murphy playing at: Mount Collins Reel / Doon Reel. There are special wobbles in the second tune which, according to the info at archive.org, are due to a hole being 'punched slightly off-center'. I'd imagine that could cause a wobble or two right enough.   Here are some notes: https://thesession.org/tunes/4026  

  • Introduction

    10/12/2016 Duration: 04min
  • Black Pat's Reel

    10/12/2016 Duration: 03min
  • Sweet Biddy Daly (jig)

    13/02/2016 Duration: 01min
  • The Gates of Mullagh (reel)

    25/01/2016 Duration: 02min
  • The One Horned Cow (reel)

    05/10/2015 Duration: 01min
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