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Do you know this tune?

Do you know this tune?

Rough transcription of first few bars:

eAAA eAAA| G2Bd eAAA| eAAA efge| dBGB cAA2

It's a reel.

# Posted on July 10th 2004 by sixholes

More notes

Got the first 8 bars (almost)

eAAA eAAA| G2Bd eAAA| eAAA efge| dBGB CAA2|
eAAA eAAA| G2Bd GABd| c2AB gedB| GBA2 ????

# Posted on July 10th 2004 by sixholes

Re: Do you know this tune?

The beginning is a little like the Flowers of Red Hill (Clogher Reel). I only came up with this because I did a search on the Tunedb using the first eight notes.

# Posted on July 11th 2004 by Donough

Re: Do you know this tune?

Flowers of Red Hill??? 1st *four* notes maybe. I did the same search and got returned "Kanes", but the second measure doesn't match.

# Posted on July 11th 2004 by Tusong200

Thanks, Jim!

It is The Curragh Races all right. A version slightly different from the database one, but definitely the same tune.

It came from a CD called "Irish Jigs", out of a French collection of "world music" called "airmail music" (http://www.playasound.com/).
This funny album contains traditional tunes but none are identified by their common names.

By the way, if someone out there has the album,
could you tell me what style they're playing in? I can only tell that it's not what I'm used to.

# Posted on July 12th 2004 by sixholes

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