Does anybody by any chance have a copy that maybe I could hear. Somewhere I have an old record of, I think, Eugene Leddy’s Co. Cavan Ceili Band, and they do it with a nice hornpipe bounce.I think you play it however you want to. Would it be AA, BB or AA, B or AAA, B or some other peculiar combination? Do any of the dancer’s know this one?

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I think he may have heared it from the singer "Johnny Moynihan " If anyone knows the poem or song and tune put together please post your comment, I would love to find a recording of it. The Blackbird is 7.5 measures on the A part, for instance, and that’s weird to play at first too.I like this tune but i have heard it being played differently by my friend on the accordian.this tune sounds great played as a hornpipe after the rights of manThis is a favourite tune of mine, and no mistake. The measures of AA = those in the extended B without the repeats, (8 + 8 to 16) so it continues to make sense to me to play it that way.

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Not modal at all.Yes, you’re right about the one measure, my screw up in the notation, it should have read:That should have read as I’d meant to say, only one =c and 7 ^c’s… And in this alternate madness ~ ^c & ^C = 24…That’s not to say I don’t have the key signature wrong… How about "King of the Fairies" followed by a set with "How Do I Keep my Maidenhead" ~ just worrying that some guy in leathers with chains connecting both tits is going to ask you what the name of that tune is… Damn, you tell yourself, I must have walked into the wrong pub…One way round the title problem is to give it in Irish. I have often been confuddled by the insistence that this be played AABB at sessions.

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Each time it was clearly taught as AAB. As I said in my original posting AA,B AA,B seems to sound best to my ‘unscholarly’ ears. She heard it at Preston Folk Club and believes it is only played in the Preston area of Lancashire (although she, myself and a whistle player intend to unleash it on the Mid-Wales traditional music scene shortly). If you've forgotten your password or username, email If you've forgotten your password or username, email Played as a hornpipe...................a great tuneYes, it's a good tune, we play it frequently in dance sets. Only a small amount of the tunes you will hear in this style of music will have been rendered into tab, but if they’re on this site they’ll be in notation, and often variations posted in ABC too.The following is a a third part to The King of the Fairies , learned from singer, fiddler and English concertina player, Ruth Jepson from Lancashire.

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This keeps the tune moving. They ended up playing it for the full 20 minutes and had a great time.

Now, when I start the tune I tell folks how I want to play it, and if someone else suggests this tune I ask them AAB or AABB?Best to ask, but we always play it AAB: as you say the B part is twice as long as the A part, so why play it twice? (Unless it fits a particular dance as AABB , but have never played it for dancing. Looking at the ‘dots’ there are repeats after both the A part and the B part.

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(They need an intro of the first A, too, so you’d play the first A three times.)
Includes 3 page(s). This feed has been running for 17 years. Improve your playing via easy step-by-step video lessons! Irish Tunes for Mountain Dulcimer, Volume 2 40 traditional Irish airs, hornpipes, jigs, reels, slip jigs, polkas and waltzes from Mark’s CDs and YouTube videos, arranged for Mountain Dulcimer in D-A-D. I guess this is intended as a help to someone who is already familiar with the tune? Also, stepdancers tend to be more familiar with the "swing" hornpipe (dotted 1/8 and 1/16 note rhythms) than one played with straight 1/8 notes.This is the Lonesome Wedding setting, as it appears in the Ossian 1993 Edition of the Roche Collection.

Every now and then I’ll start it cold and find I am entering my second round of A’s while my neighbor begins to plow through an additional B. I know the Dubliners popularized AABB, and session players often like consistency, but it does balance well as AAB, and is often played and recorded that way. 21/ago/2014 - king of the fairies tin whistle - Google Search Mantenha-se saudável e protegido(a).