Sorry Kilfarboy, yes, they call it the Flying Crowbar. A nice jig, not to be found on this site or anywhere else on the interweb with that name, so I'm curious if it goes by some other name.
Llig, isn't it fantastic playing? And there seems to be an endless stream of amazingly proficient young musicians on the site, they really must be doing something right over there to achieve this.
This tune is also known as 'The King's Fancy' and, anywhere I have come across it, is in G minor. I have to put the key as Bb as ABC Navigator doesn't seem to recognise G minor. I play it as follows:-
Why do cameramen insist on doing their best not to show the instrument being played?
Keep one side of the concertina in darkness and show as little fingering as possible, concentrating as much as possible on the faces of the players.
Thank God the players sat down and we weren't forced to suffer hair-tossing and swooping instruments like some culprits featured elsewhere on the Session.
Nice set to listen to and super playing, nevertheless.
Is the first tune really King's Fancy? It is certainly similar to the King's Fancy notated here on the Session, but I would say different enough to be a different (and better) tune.
Not the Floating Crowbar.
Not the Floating Crowbar.
http://comhaltas.ie/music/detail/comhaltaslive_268_2_mairead_corridan_and_evelyn_healy/
Lovely playing by the girls, but the first tune can't be the Floating Crowbar as that is a reel (yes?) and this is a jig. So what is the jig?
# Posted on August 29th 2008 by Bernie 29
Re: Not the Floating Crowbar.
Wouldn't that be why they call it 'The Flying Crowbar'?
# Posted on August 29th 2008 by <>-_-_-<>
Re: Not the Floating Crowbar.
lovely playing. I could listen to that all day. Infact, I think I will.
# Posted on August 29th 2008 by llig leahcim
Re: Not the Floating Crowbar.
Sorry Kilfarboy, yes, they call it the Flying Crowbar. A nice jig, not to be found on this site or anywhere else on the interweb with that name, so I'm curious if it goes by some other name.
Llig, isn't it fantastic playing? And there seems to be an endless stream of amazingly proficient young musicians on the site, they really must be doing something right over there to achieve this.
# Posted on August 29th 2008 by Bernie 29
Re: Not the Floating Crowbar.
I listened to the first tune earlier, I think I played it with Jackie Daly a few times. Isn't it 'The Blue Angel' ?
# Posted on August 29th 2008 by <>-_-_-<>
Re: Not the Floating Crowbar.
T:The Blue Angel
M:6/8
L:1/8
R:Jig
K:D
d2e |:fdd dcd | Bdd Add | Gdd Fdd | cBA bag | fdd dcd | Bdg Adf |\
GBe FAd | eBc d2e :: fdB BAB | fdB Bcd | cAF FEF |\
fgf edc | fdB BAB | fdB Bcd | cAF fge | dBB B3 :|
# Posted on August 29th 2008 by <>-_-_-<>
Re: Not the Floating Crowbar.
Yes, well done Kilfarboy, that's it.
AKA KIng's fancy (it says here) "Composed by the late Liam King, a piano player who lived in Belfast and Dublin".
# Posted on August 29th 2008 by Bernie 29
Re: Not the Floating Crowbar.
Great tunes, and great playing; thanks for posting! These girls really give the tunes what they deserve.
# Posted on August 29th 2008 by Keith Dubinsky
Re: Not the Floating Crowbar.
The Blue Angel for certain - Buttons and Bows has an excellent recording of it matched with the Cuil Aodha jig.
# Posted on August 29th 2008 by Jusa Nutter Eejit
Re: Not the Floating Crowbar.
That fiddle looks like it came up from a peat bog - great rhythm
and lift - no wonder it wouldn't stay down there...
# Posted on August 30th 2008 by Hup
Re: Not the Floating Crowbar.
This tune is also known as 'The King's Fancy' and, anywhere I have come across it, is in G minor. I have to put the key as Bb as ABC Navigator doesn't seem to recognise G minor. I play it as follows:-
X:1
T:King's Fancy / Blue Angel
M:6/8
K:Bb
Bc|:dcB BAB|GBe FBd|EGc DFB|cAF f^e_e|
dcB BA_A|GBe FBd|EGc DFB|1AGA ~B2 c:|2AGA ~B2||
c|dcB BAB|dBG BAG|A^FD cBA|ded cBA|dBG G^FG|
BAG dBG|1A^FD dcA|BcA GB:|2A^FD d/e/=fe|ded cAF||
# Posted on August 30th 2008 by AngusF
Re: Not the Floating Crowbar.
Why do cameramen insist on doing their best not to show the instrument being played?
Keep one side of the concertina in darkness and show as little fingering as possible, concentrating as much as possible on the faces of the players.
Thank God the players sat down and we weren't forced to suffer hair-tossing and swooping instruments like some culprits featured elsewhere on the Session.
Nice set to listen to and super playing, nevertheless.
# Posted on August 31st 2008 by geoffwright
Re: Not the Floating Crowbar.
The floating crowbar is a reel and its proper name is the rathcroghan reel, a Co Roscommon tune
# Posted on September 1st 2008 by feadoger
Re: Not the Floating Crowbar.
Lovely stuff
# Posted on September 1st 2008 by bb
Re: Not the Floating Crowbar.
Yup
# Posted on September 1st 2008 by benhall.1
Re: Not the Floating Crowbar.
Is the first tune really King's Fancy? It is certainly similar to the King's Fancy notated here on the Session, but I would say different enough to be a different (and better) tune.
# Posted on September 6th 2008 by Bernie 29