Irish Flute Tunes

Here’s a popular jig dedicated to some semi fossilized plants which usually get thown on a fire.

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Here’s one which Seán McGuire played.  It’s reasonably flutable for all that.

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Here’s a very very popular reel.  As for the activity described in the title, I know little of it.  The limit of my experience of plumage related activities would be the odd unsuccessful attempt at ruffling.

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The Donegal fiddle player John Doherty played a few tunes which he called “The Cameronian Reel”, none of which are the normal one of that name. This one was also recorded by Michael Coleman at some stage but I can’t remember what he called it.

I’ve played the first part single here. It maybe ought to be double, or maybe I would have been better leaving both parts out completely.

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I never had a name for this jig but it appears as “The Broken Lantern” in Ceol Rince na hÉireann vol. 5.   This is more or less the version in that book too.

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Here’s a popular reel which is sometimes also called “The Sword in The Hand” - worth two in the bush.

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If this playing of this reel sounds bad, I’m blaming a big toe infection.  It’s making tapping time very uncomfortable.

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The name of this reel always reminds me of wallpaper.  I suspect I’m missing the point but I see more walls than birds or other flocking creatures in my daily life.

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Here’s a reel which sounds like a few others but isn’t any of them.

It’s a great tune for playing on the flute.

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Here’s a reel celebrating the colour (color) of the grass in the USA.  Willie Clancy was one person who played this tune.

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This reel seems to be a Sligo thing (recorded by Michael Coleman and his ilk).  I’m not sure exactly which Baile Átha Cliath Beelzebubs are referred to in its title.

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Here’s a piping jig usually associated with Willie Clancy.  (It may well not usually be associated with him at all but I couldn’t think of anything else to write.  Willie Clancy did play it, though).

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Here’s a very flutish sort of reel.  It’s a good one for just blowing at and flapping the digits a bit.

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Here’s a piping jig which Willie Clancy and then the Bothy Band made popular.

I’ll not write anything about its name.

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Here’s a reel which is often in ‘F’.  I have it here in ‘D’ and ‘G’, either of which are a bit flutier.  ‘F’ is often better for spelling a flute than playing one.

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Here’s a waltz for a change. It comes from Fermanagh and goes more or less like this.

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