The Butterfly
May 6th, 2007 at 7:09 pm (traditional irish flute, irish flute)
Here’s a very popular slip jig. I think it was composed by the Dublin flddle player, Tommy Potts. It’s been decomposed and recomposed a few times since over the years.
It’s a good tune for the flute and hopefully shouldn’t cause people too many difficulties in playing.
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j gardner said,
May 23, 2007 at 1:10 pm
Like your flute’s tone, or rather the tone you bring to it.
Alastair said,
March 22, 2008 at 12:00 am
Nice tone, but can’t imagine any of our dancers managing either the slow or the fast tempo. Don’t forget it is a dance, not a dirge or a race. We made a (particularly poor) recording a few weeks ago here: http://www.volny.cz/alastair/tunes/Slip_Jig_2.mp3 but the tempo’s right (we were told, by those with the feet!)
Alastair
irish flute tunes said,
March 22, 2008 at 10:26 am
Regarding the tempo of this tune; it was made up by a fiddle player who didn’t often, as far as I know, play for dancing. The tempo here is meant to make it easy for people to learn the tune.
kathleen said,
June 24, 2008 at 12:47 am
I really like the tone which is of course wonderful as anyone with an ear could tell you. It’s very catching.