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If you were a tune, what would your name be...

Inspired by Silver Spears recent post:
"I wouldn't mind being a tune: existing in a state of non-existence
until some musicians suddenly, with a few twiddles of their fingers, bring you into being."

So if you were a tune, what tune would you be?
What tune best describes your personality, the you of you?

Say you had an explosive temper, would you be The Tempest?
If you loved to sing, would you be The Opera Reel, or The Chorus Jig?
Say you loved your drink, but your doctor (and your liver) forced you to give it up.
Would you be Farewell To Whiskey, or the Temperance Reel?

# Posted on February 21st 2010 by fiddlerdan

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I'd be a tune called Slagathor's Death Roundabout

# Posted on February 21st 2010 by I ♥ Dow

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I'd be gan ainm.
It's not about the ego, the "I."

# Posted on February 21st 2010 by Will Harmon

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Ethical Blend

# Posted on February 21st 2010 by ethical blend

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The Holy Crap

# Posted on February 21st 2010 by Dennis Regan

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Maybe "The One That Was Lost", because that could have been me.

# Posted on February 21st 2010 by Ben Steen

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I keep reading Ethical Blend as EthNical Blend.

Brazillian roast Irish coffee anyone?

# Posted on February 21st 2010 by banshee misfortune

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Ethnical Blend would make more sense, though Ethnic Blend would be gooder grammar.

# Posted on February 21st 2010 by sara505sings

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Since I play the piano, the Golden Keyboard would be appropriate but it is the wrong color for me.

# Posted on February 21st 2010 by fauxcelt

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The Zone Of The Triceratops.

It's a no-brainer, really...

# Posted on February 21st 2010 by nicholas

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Father Kelly's Handsome Daughter.

# Posted on February 21st 2010 by nicholas

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Flat Bat on the Turnpike

# Posted on February 21st 2010 by Michele Sims

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The Pipers Farewell in a Sinking Boat

# Posted on February 21st 2010 by Gone to work

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The Fly In The Porter

# Posted on February 21st 2010 by premier

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Just a Ku-ec One

# Posted on February 21st 2010 by kuec

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The Sportsdirect.com @ St. James' Park Stadium Tune.

This is to wind up people I know who support Newcastle United.

It will consist of eerie bits of Northumbrian piping played backwards, chopped up and artfully mixed to imitate the wind moaning through the pinions of the Red Kites as they descend on the prone home team when they've been thrashed by West Pelton in a friendly.

But I wouldn't like to be that tune for very long.

# Posted on February 21st 2010 by nicholas

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The Silver Spear.... obviously.... a fantastic tune but often feeling like a tired, broken down, lame old warhorse as it's played badly by many many people who don't know what they're doing.

# Posted on February 21st 2010 by DrSilverSpear

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Say Old Man, Can You Play The Fiddle

It seems when I look in the mirror lately, I find the years are creeping up on me...
When I go to the movies, the cashiers automatically give me the
senior discount!!
I may be getting older, but I'm not that old...yet.

# Posted on February 22nd 2010 by fiddlerdan

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Bless 'em all!

# Posted on February 22nd 2010 by Ebor_fiddler

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My name would be incredibly long, like 'The crazed man of Pollaturick who wore his cat like a hat, rather fancied tea kettles, flied with the nikki-nikki wic wong bird, and saved Ireland and all northern Europe from the Giant vampire hamster of Paderno del Grappa using nothing but a fish and and all the electricity in southern Europe'

Of course, everyone would just call me 'That Tune'.

# Posted on February 22nd 2010 by Piping Crow

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The Strayaway Child, which is where me moniker came from. Not my very favourite tune, just very apt as those who know me might testify. I may change into a Voodoo Chile occasionally and after midnight on Mondays, I'm Tuesday's Child. Yes, that's Deena Webster, anyone remember her?

# Posted on February 22nd 2010 by strayaway

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Batlady--
your tune wouldn't be in the key of B flat, would it? :- P

# Posted on February 22nd 2010 by fiddlerdan

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But if we're talking about real tunes, I would be The Rights of Man. I guess I would say that because I think everything is equal.

# Posted on February 22nd 2010 by Piping Crow

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Everything is equal? I don't understand. What does that mean?

# Posted on February 22nd 2010 by ethical blend

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I'm looking forward to a bodhran player's reply to this thread

# Posted on February 22nd 2010 by ...

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There might be two follow up tunes to complete the colletion.
I hate to be greedy and claim three but they might be played as a set like this
The Pipers Farewell in a Sinking Boat
The Drowning Piper
The Sunken Boat

# Posted on February 22nd 2010 by Gone to work

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I'm eagerly waiting for some male poster to say that they would be the Bucks of Oranmore.

# Posted on February 22nd 2010 by DrSilverSpear

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llig--
might a hypothetical tune name for a bodhran player be
Bang The Drum Slowly?

# Posted on February 22nd 2010 by fiddlerdan

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Or possibly Devanney's Goat.

# Posted on February 22nd 2010 by DrSilverSpear

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The Cup of Tea ............. it's what I drink in Sessions!

# Posted on February 22nd 2010 by Ptarmigan

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my darling's a sheep

# Posted on February 22nd 2010 by richrua

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fiddlerdan--you got it!

# Posted on February 22nd 2010 by Michele Sims

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Silver Spear--
Bucks might have been me 30 years ago, but alas these days
it takes me all night to do what I used to do all night ;-P

# Posted on February 22nd 2010 by fiddlerdan

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Boatpiper--
A final tune to your set might include that hauntingly mournful air
The Floating Bagpipes : - )

# Posted on February 22nd 2010 by fiddlerdan

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I would see my self as the high level hornpipe
a bright tune with some accidentals but from the north east of England

# Posted on February 22nd 2010 by bazouki dave

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I Buried My Wife And Danced On Her Grave

# Posted on February 22nd 2010 by Gringo

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Marry, Cut Yer Tow Nails, Yer Tearin' the Carpet.

It's a real tune...

# Posted on February 22nd 2010 by Piping Crow

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The Teetotaler

# Posted on February 22nd 2010 by Lint - upon - Tweed

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# Posted on February 22nd 2010 by AlBrown

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outside the tradition, to be sure, but I'd be "I Got Them College Tuition Payin' Blues"

# Posted on February 22nd 2010 by Greg the Piano Tuner

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C*ck up and Crowing.

# Posted on February 22nd 2010 by jwvansteenwyk

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I can certainly relate, Greg. Two at once.

# Posted on February 22nd 2010 by Michele Sims

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An Buachaill Caol Dubh.

Cheers,
Armand

# Posted on February 22nd 2010 by armandale

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Jenny Banged my Weiner

# Posted on February 22nd 2010 by Jwalkert

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It's more of a Highland Fling, but can be played as a Hornypipe.

# Posted on February 22nd 2010 by Jwalkert

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She Begs for More (Si Beag Si Mor)

# Posted on February 22nd 2010 by Leendah

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Nobody wants "The hag with the money"?

# Posted on February 22nd 2010 by Gringo

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The Auld Man Frae Gitootmaroadnooitslaistordersanonywayyerwillieshanginoot.

# Posted on February 22nd 2010 by nicholas

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Pressed for time

# Posted on February 22nd 2010 by fiddlemax

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The Old Torn Petty Argument.

# Posted on February 22nd 2010 by ...

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You won't get a bodhran player contributing. There are only bodhran owners.

# Posted on February 22nd 2010 by Steve Shaw

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9-5: The Mathematician (nearest I could find to actuary)
Out of hours: Cook in the kitchen

# Posted on February 23rd 2010 by domhnall.

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The Hairy Git with the Big Mandolin.

# Posted on February 23rd 2010 by Guernsey Pete

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"The Old Torn Petty Argument." - very good, M, but I'd maybe have put you down for "The Contradiction" or maybe "Thunderhead" ;-)

# Posted on February 23rd 2010 by domhnall.

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1. The Wig Glue Collector
2. Matt Munro's Hot Water Bottle
3. The Emporer's New Clothes
4. The Session Wrecker's Reel (Numbers one two and nine)
5. Ukulele Daily
6. Ouanqueur Phaarte Goes To New Cross

# Posted on February 23rd 2010 by yhaalhouse

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Everything is equal? Only if you have worked the algebraic equation incorrectly.

# Posted on February 23rd 2010 by fauxcelt

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"I'm eagerly waiting for some male poster to say that they would be the Bucks of Oranmore."
Do you need money?

# Posted on February 23rd 2010 by fauxcelt

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I had an old Ford pickup that blew up in the middle of the Nevada desert. Maybe I could go with My Truck that Runsnomore.

# Posted on February 23rd 2010 by Gone to work

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I know a few people who could be called the "Piper's Despair."

# Posted on February 23rd 2010 by DrSilverSpear

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That old Ford was this Piper's Dispair ;-(

# Posted on February 23rd 2010 by Gone to work

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faucelt, YES!.. I need money. The old Ford still sits in the middle of the desert. $100.00 and it's yours. You'll hafta go get it though. ;-)

# Posted on February 23rd 2010 by Gone to work

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"Paddy's Lament for His Fourth Cousin From Venezuela's Long-Lost Boombox" Strathspey.

Or "The Moth."

# Posted on February 24th 2010 by Piece

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Probably "Paddy's Lament For His Fourth-Generation Cousin From Venezuela's Broken Boombox".

Or "The Butterfly".

Cheers,

# Posted on February 24th 2010 by Piece

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Damn.
Another double posting.

Guess butterflies and moths aren't the only bugs...

# Posted on February 24th 2010 by Piece

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"That old Ford was this Piper's Dispair ;-("

Only if I went out with your old pickup truck.

How about the Piper through the Meadow Straying?

No takers on Martin Wynne's number 2 (come on, Craic Addict, this was your joke )?

# Posted on February 24th 2010 by DrSilverSpear

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Yeah SS, The Ford left me as "The Piper in the Desert Straying." Somewhere out there in the sand is a version of "The Straying Piper's number 2."

# Posted on February 24th 2010 by Gone to work

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Steve and Llig,
But say IF a goat skin thumper were a tune, might their name be
for the tune that goes like:
Bangitty Bangitty Thumpa Thumpa Boom Boom Scrape Thump?

# Posted on February 24th 2010 by fiddlerdan

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It would have to be 'good humoured and fairly tipsy' - a real tune (beautiful slow one).

Nicholas I didn't know you'd met my dad
'The Auld Man Frae Gitootmaroadnooitslaistordersanonywayyerwillieshanginoot'

# Posted on February 24th 2010 by eiluned

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Thank you for your most generous offer Boatpiper but since I am an over-worked and underpaid employee of the federal government, I need money just as badly as you do. I cannot afFORD to buy your truck.
Also, I don't like driving pickup trucks or SUV's (Stupid Useless Vehicles) either.

# Posted on February 24th 2010 by fauxcelt

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"Steve and Llig,
But say IF a goat skin thumper were a tune, might their name be
for the tune that goes like:
Bangitty Bangitty Thumpa Thumpa Boom Boom Scrape Thump?"
It's already been done. Boom Bang-a-Bang actually won the Eurovision. It was the bodhran's finest hour. Its only fine hour I should think.

# Posted on February 24th 2010 by Steve Shaw

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The Musical Priest

# Posted on February 24th 2010 by Reverend

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Thanks to a joke I learned a long time ago from Jusa Nutter, I know that NBA great Wilt "The Stilt" Chamberlain and I would share the same tune name.

Dunmore Lasses

# Posted on February 24th 2010 by SWFL Fiddler

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If Tiger Woods were a tune, his name most assuredly would not be
One Wife Is Enough For Me...

# Posted on February 24th 2010 by fiddlerdan

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Dearest Dickie - 'cos that's my Morris nickname!

# Posted on February 24th 2010 by RKHambridge

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Fun post. Will have to think further on what tune I would be... but we composed a little ditty for my dog - his tune is called
"Piddle behind the Bar"

# Posted on February 25th 2010 by frauschmittle

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The pub in the square
followed by
The hangover

Good man the Paddy O'Brien

# Posted on February 25th 2010 by premier

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the ravelled hank of yarn

# Posted on February 25th 2010 by B Rad

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Head of Cabbage #9
( a favorite when we can't think of the name of the tune we just played...)

# Posted on February 25th 2010 by FiferFiddler

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Banish Misfortune (Known in some band's tunebooks as 'Varnish my Foreskin')

# Posted on February 26th 2010 by eiluned

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Guess that's how I picked my screen name!

# Posted on March 3rd 2010 by primrose lass