http://irishflute.podbean.com Traditional Irish Tunes Played on the Flute (iflute@googlemail.com) Fri, 09 May 2008 15:10:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en-ie Hello. This site contains recordings I have made as a source of tunes for people who play the flute, or other instruments for that matter. They are just versions of tunes as I remember them. My memory isn’t the best so some of the versions and the titles might be ... http://irishflute.podbean.com/2008/05/09/introduction/ Here's a tune which I think is named after a bridge.  Talking of bridges, I think I learned this on the fiddle in B flat.  My fingers seem unwilling to coax this tune out of a 2 keyed flute in that key so here it is in C.  I'm not ... http://irishflute.podbean.com/2008/05/09/the-high-level-hornpipe/ Here's one I've been asked to record.  I had to look it up and I'm a bit uncertain of ho it goes.  This version is probably sufficiently washed-up to at least have some shore connections anyway.Download Standard Podcasts http://irishflute.podbean.com/2008/05/04/molly-on-the-shore-reel/ Here's one for flutes with flats.  It's a bit vague here as per usual but it's a nice wee tune.Download Standard Podcasts http://irishflute.podbean.com/2008/05/01/paddy-kellys-reel/ This is one I was asked to play.  I don't know whether the version of the first part that goes up to a high 'C' is the normal one or whether the more land-based one rules the waves or waves at those who rule the land.  I think I heard ... http://irishflute.podbean.com/2008/04/30/the-independent-hornpipe/ As usual the playing here is a bit vague.  The tune just occurred to me so I thought I'd play it while the sausages were cooking.  They're done now - probably about as half-baked as this recording.Download Standard Podcasts http://irishflute.podbean.com/2008/04/26/mullingar-lea/ Here's a reel which I was asked to play. I'm not writing a disclaimer with the "Iwas asked to play" bit. It's just that I'm so glad to have been asked that I can't help but mention the asking in the posting. I used to think this was a ... http://irishflute.podbean.com/2008/04/25/the-ivy-leaf-reel/ I've been asked to play this.  Having tried to play it I think I know why it I never did before now (I think it might be awkward on the flute).  I couldn't even work out what the first note ought to be.  I don't think I have enough of ... http://irishflute.podbean.com/2008/04/24/bunker-hill-reel/ Here's another tune I was asked to post. Posting ponies; is that like Pony Express are are they just post ponies? Anyway, I'm never too sure of the first part but that wasn't the focus of the query to which I'm trying to respond here. I hope I haven't forgotten about ... http://irishflute.podbean.com/2008/04/22/langstroms-pony/ Here's a fiddle tune.  The flute's only really a fiddle with more holes and fewer strings so it's probably acceptable to play fiddle tunes on it.  It even starts with the same letter. I vaguely remember being in a group once, many years ago, and "Mooncoin" was the polite one of ... http://irishflute.podbean.com/2008/04/20/the-mooncoin/ I've just been asked to play this tune so here is an attempt at it. I'm about to go and do the washing up now and am feeling a bit uneasy about what may be lurking under last night's saucepans. A few wriggling elvers may actually be quite an ... http://irishflute.podbean.com/2008/04/13/the-eel-in-the-sink/ Here's a reel I was asked to play. My postings of late have been about as frequent as my blacksmith sightings, merry or otherwise, but being reminded of this tune at least stirred me into a brief flurry of activity. This particular tune is very suitable for the ... http://irishflute.podbean.com/2008/04/06/the-merry-blacksmith/ Here's a common reel.  I thought I'd probably have played this one already but I didn't see it on the site.  Maybe I called it by another name ("don't kiss me Kate" perhaps). I hope this version is OK.  My recall facility for tunes has been a bit vague lately.Download Standard ... http://irishflute.podbean.com/2008/03/22/kiss-me-kate-reel/ I'm not really the right person to be playing this great composer's tunes but as I'm the one who happens to be nearest this computer, I'll have to do.  I've just called this No.1 to mark it out from any subsequent PF reels which I might play in future.Download Standard ... http://irishflute.podbean.com/2008/03/14/paddy-fahys-reel-1/ This is yet another tardy response to a request to record a tune.  I'm delighted to be asked to play specific tunes as it saves me having to think them up for myself. I had to look this one up on the internet as I didn't know it.  I hope my ... http://irishflute.podbean.com/2008/03/08/the-finnish-polka/ Here's a fairly popular one, as are many enchanted things and persons.Download Standard Podcasts http://irishflute.podbean.com/2008/03/03/the-enchanted-lady-reel/ Here's another tune I was asked for.  I've tried to oblige but I haven't quite got my sea legs.  I might have been better scuttling this attempt.Download Standard Podcasts http://irishflute.podbean.com/2008/03/01/the-graf-spee-reel/ Here's another request.  I'm afraid I didn't recognise the name of the tune so I looked it up in www land.  It sort of sounds familiar; mouth organs spring to mind (if that's a thing they can do) and by the end of the tune I thought I maybe knew ... http://irishflute.podbean.com/2008/02/27/the-trip-to-cullenstown-reel/ Here's a tune I was asked to play.  I'm sorry it took me so long getting round to it.  There are a few other tune requests that I'm currently in the process of taking even longer over. I played a three part version at the end of this recording.  I've heard ... http://irishflute.podbean.com/2008/02/24/the-rakes-of-clonmel/ I was asked to post this tune and am grateful to have been asked.  I don't know why I hadn't thought of it myself.  The setting here may be a bit dodgy but that may help to take the bad look off some of the other tunes I have played ... http://irishflute.podbean.com/2008/02/17/the-chicago-reel/ Here's another Martin Wynne thing. I'm not sure where I learned it but it seems to have been hovering about in quite a few places. If I can think of MW3 I'll have a got at it too.Download Standard Podcasts http://irishflute.podbean.com/2008/02/16/martin-wynnes-no1-reel/ I was asked ages ago to play this tune.  I'm sorry it took so long but I always got distracted any time I set about playing it. I think this is the number two variety of Martin Wynne reel.  I'll have to get round to recording at least one other so ... http://irishflute.podbean.com/2008/02/10/martin-wynnes-no2-reel/ I can't think of anything to write about this reel soDownload Standard Podcasts http://irishflute.podbean.com/2008/02/04/the-merry-harriers-reel/ I can't promise that this tune will provoke as enthusiastic a reaction in other people as it did in Bess. Maybe she didn't get out much. I think it's a decent tune all the same which maybe doesn't get out enough either.Download Standard Podcasts http://irishflute.podbean.com/2008/02/02/elizabeth-kellys-delight-jig/ I was asked to play a reel of this name.  I know there are several boys, and more than one Ballynahinch for that matter, in this country so I hope I have correctly identified all parties involved.  If I have got the wrong tune please let me know and I'll ... http://irishflute.podbean.com/2008/01/30/the-boys-of-ballynahinch-reel/ I've finally got around to playing this one which I was asked to play ages ago. The second part has always been a bit of a mystery to me. I hope I haven't made it even more of one with this effort. I think some of the notes are right ... http://irishflute.podbean.com/2008/01/25/the-callan-lasses-donnellys-reel/ This is my recollection of a fairly common reel.  I was asked to record this one and I has taken me that long to do so that I can't even remember when I was asked.  Maybe I wasn't asked at all.  I think I have at least one other reel ... http://irishflute.podbean.com/2008/01/20/the-providence-reel/ Here's another Paddy Ryan's Dream.  Mr. Ryan must have been some sleeper. I think this one is close to the version that John Doherty used to call "Mooney's Reel".Download Standard Podcasts http://irishflute.podbean.com/2008/01/14/paddy-ryans-dream-2/ Here's my attempt to play this tune as requested to do so.  I'm not too familiar with playing it on a flute and I fear that my playing may be straying in the direction of being the sort of dream Paddy Ryan, or anyone else for that matter, may get after ... http://irishflute.podbean.com/2008/01/14/paddy-ryans-dream-reel/ This is a very popular reel which I just remembered I hadn't played on this site yet.  I'm running out of popular tunes to play by this stage so when I do recall one I get a temporary happiness boost which is most welcome, especially on a dark Sunday evening ... http://irishflute.podbean.com/2008/01/13/the-green-fields-of-rosbeigh-aka-the-kerryman-reel/ I think that daycaps, mornigcaps and other headgear have left me vexed and clueless regarding the name of this reel. It was recorded by Michael Coleman around 80 years ago. I don't think he had a name for it. I'm not sure where this name came out of but it ... http://irishflute.podbean.com/2008/01/11/good-morning-to-your-nightcap-reel/ I was asked to record this which is a good thing as otherwise my memory wouldn't have stumbled upon it. Now my mental recall has been provoked, I hope this is the same Reel of Rio that got lost in it years ago. I don't know what the "Rio" in ... http://irishflute.podbean.com/2008/01/08/the-reel-of-rio/ Here's the one which comes after the one which I haven't posted yet.  This one and the one which isn't here are tunes from Fermanagh.Download Standard Podcasts http://irishflute.podbean.com/2008/01/06/eddy-duffys-barndance/ Here's another port gan ainm. Níl port le hainm fágtha agam faoin am seo. I seem to have run out of names of tunes to post so I'm going to have to start ganning ainms for the next while. I learned this jig from a piper who has an ainm - ... http://irishflute.podbean.com/2008/01/03/gan-ainm-tom-busby%e2%80%99s-jig/ This tune is also played as a reel with an extra bit thrown in. I'm sorry about the mess up at the end. I suddenly realised that I had seven minutes to finish the tune, upload it, write a comment, digest my dinner (I suspect that may actually ... http://irishflute.podbean.com/2007/12/30/miss-ramseys-highland/