I was stuck in a traffic jam for 2 hours and was thinking. I was wondering the way you have the big reels such as the contridiction and the mason's apron and big jigs such as the gold jig. Do you have big hornpipes? Give instrument and the of tune please?
Hornpipes Rule! But they're not played enough. Love to play hornpipes and love to dance the hornpipe. My list:
Home Ruler
Kittie's Wedding
Off To California
Galway
Liverpool
Slievenamon
Dublin to Galway
Golden Eagle
Honeysuckle
Pretty Maggie Morrissey
Stack of Barley
Plains of Boyle
Rakes of Kildare
Galtee
The Wonder
Murphy's
I breathe a sigh of relief when I finish playing the four parts of Johnstone's Hornpipe Key D on the box. The third part has a certain degree of difficulty on the button key and if you think about it too much it's easy to make a balls up. On the other hand I feel flushed with success when I get through without a mistake.
Agree about hornpipes. I'm a newcomer but I love it whenever the group plays a hornpipe set. Maybe part of it's because they're a little easier to play, but they just sound really good and are a pleasure to play.
I can only speak for pipers, but these would include:
Johnny Cope
Dwyer's
The Groves
The Sweeps
The High Level
An Sean Bhean Bhocht
The Derry Hornpipe
Murphy's
I'm including a couple of three part tunes - the Sweeps, the High Level, and An Sean Bhean Bhocht - because even though they're not particularly lengthy tunes they have can be excellent showpieces if played with sensitivity and skill.
Adding to my thread...there are at least 3 set-dances performed in Irish Step Dancing competitions that are hornpipes and could / should be considered showpieces:
The Blackbird
Job of Journey Work
Madame Bonaparte
Great tunes, yet again, not played enough.
Check 'em out on youtube or the Comhaltas website.
'Nah. All the standards aren't The Big Tunes. Forget the Showstoppers - that's just the gimmicks. And the canon of The Big Tunes is not the same as the canon of the Big Tunes was in 1957 or 1907 or any century or half century before that. But the canon of The Big Tunes we would assume would comprise of a good few of the tunes which define the whole of the tradition. Or cast their shadow upon that which determines how the tradition is set. Yet they in themselves as tunes have an enduring life within them and a power, some may imbued with mystical, or even in heathen circles, a religious power, to metaphorically make you jump with joy, and fart like an engine, and...whoo-ooo ooo-uummm. Mmmmmm.uhhhhhngn. Time for my tablets again, nurse. Yes that's it. just a little water if you please, ta.'
My that thread does bring back some memories! Poor old Tradpiper, I wonder where he is now. [Yes, I do know the answer, unfortunately. ]
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/3977
"SWFL fiddler" - you've just reminded me of a T-shirt I saw in Australia a few yars back :
"Swinging Dick's Golf Academy - it's not the length of your club, it's how you swing it !"
the big hornpipes...
the big hornpipes...
I was stuck in a traffic jam for 2 hours and was thinking. I was wondering the way you have the big reels such as the contridiction and the mason's apron and big jigs such as the gold jig. Do you have big hornpipes? Give instrument and the of tune please?
# Posted on October 28th 2009 by whistlin_bouy
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the only thing I know is ~ it's not "Acrobat"
;)
# Posted on October 28th 2009 by Ben Steen
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Hornpipes Rule! But they're not played enough. Love to play hornpipes and love to dance the hornpipe. My list:
Home Ruler
Kittie's Wedding
Off To California
Galway
Liverpool
Slievenamon
Dublin to Galway
Golden Eagle
Honeysuckle
Pretty Maggie Morrissey
Stack of Barley
Plains of Boyle
Rakes of Kildare
Galtee
The Wonder
Murphy's
etc, etc, etc
# Posted on October 28th 2009 by Threewood
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is the Stack of Barley the same tune as the Stack of Wheat?
I like Rights of Man alot.
but if by "big" you mean multiple parts, Rights of Man's just a two-parter
# Posted on October 28th 2009 by Nate Ryan
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I breathe a sigh of relief when I finish playing the four parts of Johnstone's Hornpipe Key D on the box. The third part has a certain degree of difficulty on the button key and if you think about it too much it's easy to make a balls up. On the other hand I feel flushed with success when I get through without a mistake.
# Posted on October 28th 2009 by Free Reed
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Agree about hornpipes. I'm a newcomer but I love it whenever the group plays a hornpipe set. Maybe part of it's because they're a little easier to play, but they just sound really good and are a pleasure to play.
# Posted on October 28th 2009 by Jimmy B
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The Drunken Sailor
Murphy's
Johnny Cope
Kitty O'Shea's
# Posted on October 28th 2009 by snorre
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Big hornpipes?
I can only speak for pipers, but these would include:
Johnny Cope
Dwyer's
The Groves
The Sweeps
The High Level
An Sean Bhean Bhocht
The Derry Hornpipe
Murphy's
I'm including a couple of three part tunes - the Sweeps, the High Level, and An Sean Bhean Bhocht - because even though they're not particularly lengthy tunes they have can be excellent showpieces if played with sensitivity and skill.
# Posted on October 28th 2009 by Seosamh Ui Sinan
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Spellan's inspiration
# Posted on October 28th 2009 by cathycook
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Seosamh Ui Sinan has the good answer.
But why BIG?
Cheers
Ged
# Posted on October 28th 2009 by gedpipes
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when i said big i meant great showpiece hornpipes....thats if they exist.............
# Posted on October 28th 2009 by whistlin_bouy
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Adding to my thread...there are at least 3 set-dances performed in Irish Step Dancing competitions that are hornpipes and could / should be considered showpieces:
The Blackbird
Job of Journey Work
Madame Bonaparte
Great tunes, yet again, not played enough.
Check 'em out on youtube or the Comhaltas website.
# Posted on October 28th 2009 by Threewood
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This should any whistler stuck in a traffic jam something to pass the time with:
http://www.rogermillington.com/tunetoc/acrobat_skelton.html
# Posted on October 28th 2009 by Jeeves Tones
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should give...
# Posted on October 28th 2009 by Jeeves Tones
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For what makes 'big', Ged, check this thread - http://www.www.thesession.org/discussions/display/14811/ - and, Danny's definition (under his latest monicker 'Songlines in Dreamtime').
# Posted on October 28th 2009 by MacCruiskeen
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Whoops, extraneous comma there.
]
Here's Danny's posting on that thread:
'Nah. All the standards aren't The Big Tunes. Forget the Showstoppers - that's just the gimmicks. And the canon of The Big Tunes is not the same as the canon of the Big Tunes was in 1957 or 1907 or any century or half century before that. But the canon of The Big Tunes we would assume would comprise of a good few of the tunes which define the whole of the tradition. Or cast their shadow upon that which determines how the tradition is set. Yet they in themselves as tunes have an enduring life within them and a power, some may imbued with mystical, or even in heathen circles, a religious power, to metaphorically make you jump with joy, and fart like an engine, and...whoo-ooo ooo-uummm. Mmmmmm.uhhhhhngn. Time for my tablets again, nurse. Yes that's it. just a little water if you please, ta.'
My that thread does bring back some memories! Poor old Tradpiper, I wonder where he is now. [Yes, I do know the answer, unfortunately.
# Posted on October 28th 2009 by MacCruiskeen
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McGlincheys
Very fond of Cronins, but I'd never call it one of the "big" tunes, and that's partly why I like it....
# Posted on October 28th 2009 by TomB-R
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'the western' and 'the stagecoach', which i know from a track of james kelly (can't recall which album) and the playing of tom sparks.
# Posted on October 28th 2009 by 'tinamatt
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The Japanese Hornpipe, though just two parts, is a bit of a showpiece - the high e' note might make them jump, anyway!
# Posted on October 28th 2009 by nicholas
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Oh for crying out loud. How many times do we have to say this?
It’s not the size of the hornpipe, it’s how you swing it.
# Posted on October 28th 2009 by SWFL Fiddler
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Has something from the thread above dribbled into this one??
# Posted on October 28th 2009 by Pat Mustard
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If your hornpipe is that big it's hard to keep it in hand and safely in one thread.
# Posted on October 28th 2009 by DrSilverSpear
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Too far... too far... Shouldn't you be off in a room somewhere by yourself squeezing your bag?
# Posted on October 28th 2009 by Pat Mustard
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Nah, I'm about to go finger a chanter in a very crowded pub.
# Posted on October 28th 2009 by DrSilverSpear
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Happy pumping...
# Posted on October 28th 2009 by Pat Mustard
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Aye, it usually is.
# Posted on October 28th 2009 by DrSilverSpear
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http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/3977
"SWFL fiddler" - you've just reminded me of a T-shirt I saw in Australia a few yars back :
"Swinging Dick's Golf Academy - it's not the length of your club, it's how you swing it !"
# Posted on October 29th 2009 by Kenny
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years....
# Posted on October 29th 2009 by Kenny
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The Poppy Leaf
# Posted on October 29th 2009 by Hup
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Plains of Boyle
Blackbird
Garden of Daisies
small hornpipes BIG set
# Posted on October 29th 2009 by geoffwright
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"is the Stack of Barley the same tune as the Stack of Wheat?"
No.
It's been mentioned twice already, but I'll mention it again:
Murphy's http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/1140
Not a blingy sort of tune, but a great rambling one, with loads of space for variations.
# Posted on October 29th 2009 by CreadurMawnOrganig
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Pride of Petravore?
# Posted on November 1st 2009 by Earl Cameron
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I'm a bit staggered that
Harvest Home
Belfast hornpipe
have not yet been mentioned - so I shall
# Posted on November 3rd 2009 by MartinJongleur