Traditional Irish Flute Tunes (iflute@googlemail.com)
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 3 days 2 hours 10 minutes
episode 116: The London Clog
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:
episode 115: The Milky Way (reel)
This reel was made in space for the flute; sorry this effort isn't as out of this world as the title would suggest.
episode 114: Peg McGrath’s reel
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.
episode 113: The Whistling Postman - jig
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.
episode 112: Jack Rowe - reel
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.
episode 111: The Mount Collins Reel (The Girls of Farranfore)
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 tha...
episode 111: The Maids of Mt Cisco
I'm not sure why I hadn't posted this tune before now; maybe it's because I don't know whether it should be 'Mt Cisco' or 'Mt Kisco'; maybe because I don't know how many times to play each part. The recorded version has just come out of a slightly corrup...
Introduction
**** Tune Index all Muddled up **** I've just posted a tune here for the first time in months. While I was on the site I ...
episode 1: Black Pat’s Reel
I've been living in a teeny weeny flat in Luxembourg for the last three weeks and have been afraid to play in case the people in the teeny weeny flats above and beside me objected. I finally got playing last night in a pub at a session with 4 flute...
Black Pat’s Reel
I've been living in a teeny weeny flat in Luxembourg for the last three weeks and have been afraid to play in case the people ...