Any one any nice hornpipes which I should learn? My collection of hornpipes is currently reallly just regular session hornpipes but would like to improve on that!
Cheers
The Belfast (or Sweeps) is a nice one to have if you don't play it already. On the whistle, anyway, it's one of those obliging tunes that sounds impressively virtuoso but is actually quite easy to master. But the "impressive" and "virtuoso" bits matter a good deal less than the fact it is, well, a really nice tune!
There are plenty of virtuoso tunes I wouldn't inflict on a political prisoner if I was Stalin.
Fishers hornpipe is nice. My favorite is the Listowel hornpipe. I think it has another more popular name...Bonaparte's retreat or Bonapart Crossing the Rhine, can't remember but I learned it as the Listowel and it's a mighty tune.
Huh? Th OP asks for something other than session standards, and we get Off to CA, Fishers, the Belfast....? Why not Boys of Bluehill and Harvest Home?
Some good hornpipes are indeed session standards: Chief O'Neill's Favourite, The Wicklow, Little Stack of Wheat, Staten Island, etc. But there are great hornpipes that aren't heard often enough.
Ah! The Good Natured Man. I've been looking for the name for years. Learned it, I think, from Joanie Madden somewhere along the way, but its been in my tune list as "Someone's Hornpipe" for years!
Is there something about "Off to California" that makes it particularly popular with harpers ?
I know two based more than 100 miles apart who both love to play it.
I have not heard this hornpipe;
"The Drunken Sailor's"
hornpipe
Key signature: Gdorian
Submitted on February 20th 2002 by radriano http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/553
Now I'm interested in hearing Tommy Peoples plays the tune;
The tune listing has an impressive number of recordings under this title.
So why, out of the 67 CDs, does only one have a track listing which links you back to the tune above?
The other 66 link to one of the following ~
Willy Walsh's, Byrne's, Little Stack of Wheat, Kitty's Wedding, Fisherman's Lilt, Cronin's, Rights of Man, Jackie Tar, Woodcock Hill, Minstrel's Fancy. But don't look up the dots.
I second Kitty's Wedding and Tailor's Twist, both great tunes.
As for Boys of Bluehill, well, for a lovely setting that transforms the standard session version, try Gearoid O'hAllmhurain's setting from "Traditional Music from Clare and Beyond."
I came on here tonight to look up The Hills of Coore (a Junior Crehan hornpipe that I haven't played in too long) because a friend mentioned it on Facebook moments ago. A fine tune. http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/2157
The Honeysuckle is a very nice one, very stately and refined-sounding to my ear. Similar to the Cliffs, if I remember right, and I'll go and have a look and if I'm wrong I'll be back to say so.
Madame Bonaparte is great for mucking about with (subject to mates' agreement of course). I second gedpipes' suggestion too. That Charlie Lennon one, Dance of the Honeybees, is very nice too.
I'm amazed that nobody has mentioned 'The High Level'
It's an age thing of course. Back in the mists of time it was one of the first tunes that was requested by punters, and if you couldn't play it you were classed as useless.
Did you say which instrument you play? There are some tunes that are easier to play on one, but more difficult on another, For instance "Harvest Home" is a doddle on the fiddle, but it's a right bugger on the old diatonic two row.
I agree with the larger point, although to my fingers, there are few tunes easier on the B/C box than Harvest Home - when I can remember it. Half the time, I've got the other one (Home Ruler) in my head, and can't get Harvest Home at all.
So some tunes are easier on some instruments, but we haven't agreed on exactly which ones they are or if they're the same ones for different people.
Harvest Home is fairly easy on fiddle and rather hard on a concertina. Concertinas don't particularly like repeated notes like the ones in the B music of Harvest Home. I've noticed other tunes (Joys of Wedlock comes to mind) that are easier on concertina than fiddle.
Hornipipe suggestion
Hornipipe suggestion
Any one any nice hornpipes which I should learn? My collection of hornpipes is currently reallly just regular session hornpipes but would like to improve on that!
Cheers
# Posted on September 11th 2010 by yo4trad
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My current favorite is "Off to California"...
# Posted on September 11th 2010 by plunk111
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If you can get your hands on the album 'Humdinger' by Paul Brock and Enda Scahill, there's a lovely set of hornpipes on it:
The Kildare Fancy / The Stack of Wheat.
# Posted on September 11th 2010 by Pat Mustard
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My current favorite set, played in order:
Peacock's Feather
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/663
Humours of Tullycrine
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/980
Pride of Petravore
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/82
# Posted on September 11th 2010 by rogfox
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The Belfast (or Sweeps) is a nice one to have if you don't play it already. On the whistle, anyway, it's one of those obliging tunes that sounds impressively virtuoso but is actually quite easy to master. But the "impressive" and "virtuoso" bits matter a good deal less than the fact it is, well, a really nice tune!
There are plenty of virtuoso tunes I wouldn't inflict on a political prisoner if I was Stalin.
# Posted on September 11th 2010 by nicholas
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Fishers hornpipe is nice. My favorite is the Listowel hornpipe. I think it has another more popular name...Bonaparte's retreat or Bonapart Crossing the Rhine, can't remember but I learned it as the Listowel and it's a mighty tune.
# Posted on September 11th 2010 by shanty
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My favorite is Leitrim Fancy: http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/3252
# Posted on September 11th 2010 by John Culhane
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Alexanders, with all the arpeggios in the B part, is a great one. And Delahunty's, with its Mixolydian C naturals, is also a great one.
# Posted on September 11th 2010 by AlBrown
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Huh? Th OP asks for something other than session standards, and we get Off to CA, Fishers, the Belfast....? Why not Boys of Bluehill and Harvest Home?
Some good hornpipes are indeed session standards: Chief O'Neill's Favourite, The Wicklow, Little Stack of Wheat, Staten Island, etc. But there are great hornpipes that aren't heard often enough.
Try:
Galway Bay (http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/3453)
The Goodnatured Man (http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/312)
Hangman's Rope (http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/932)
The Smell of the Bog (http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/5905)
Tailor's Twist (http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/996)
The Wee Rabbit (http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/4608)
# Posted on September 11th 2010 by Will Harmon
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The Home Ruler.
# Posted on September 11th 2010 by tubaphone #9
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The Goodnatured Man -- that's a great one, Will. Haven't thought of it for a long time.
# Posted on September 11th 2010 by John Culhane
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Ah! The Good Natured Man. I've been looking for the name for years. Learned it, I think, from Joanie Madden somewhere along the way, but its been in my tune list as "Someone's Hornpipe" for years!
Thanks Will
# Posted on September 12th 2010 by cboody
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Is there something about "Off to California" that makes it particularly popular with harpers ?
I know two based more than 100 miles apart who both love to play it.
# Posted on September 12th 2010 by Guernsey Pete
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I have not heard this hornpipe;
"The Drunken Sailor's"
hornpipe
Key signature: Gdorian
Submitted on February 20th 2002 by radriano
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/553
Now I'm interested in hearing Tommy Peoples plays the tune;
Master Irish Fiddle Player
Tommy Peoples
Submitted on November 17th 2006 by TradLad
http://www.thesession.org/recordings/display/2258
The tune listing has an impressive number of recordings under this title.
So why, out of the 67 CDs, does only one have a track listing which links you back to the tune above?
The other 66 link to one of the following ~
"The Galway"
hornpipe
Key signature: Dmajor
May 21st 2001 by Jeremy
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/38
"Galway Bay"
hornpipe
Key signature: Gdorian
August 28th 2004 by edl
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/3453
"The Trip To Galway"
jig
Key signature: Dminor
March 2nd 2005 by Will Harmon
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/4269
"The Drunken Sailor"
polka
Key signature: Gmajor
November 10th 2006 by The Merry Highlander
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/6348
"The Tipsy Sailor"
jig
Key signature: Edorian
April 3rd 2009 by bogman.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/9496
# Posted on September 12th 2010 by Ben Steen
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Willy Walsh's, Byrne's, Little Stack of Wheat, Kitty's Wedding, Fisherman's Lilt, Cronin's, Rights of Man, Jackie Tar, Woodcock Hill, Minstrel's Fancy. But don't look up the dots.
# Posted on September 12th 2010 by Steve Shaw
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I second Kitty's Wedding and Tailor's Twist, both great tunes.
As for Boys of Bluehill, well, for a lovely setting that transforms the standard session version, try Gearoid O'hAllmhurain's setting from "Traditional Music from Clare and Beyond."
# Posted on September 12th 2010 by fidkid
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The Wonder Hornpipe and The Flowing Tide
# Posted on September 12th 2010 by Free Reed
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I just like the ceolachan & Dr. Dow comments ...
"The Cliffs"
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/412
# Posted on September 12th 2010 by Ben Steen
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My current favorite is Miss Brown's Fancy.
# Posted on September 12th 2010 by Ann M.
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I'm fond of Friendly Visit, Down the Glen, Bashful Bachelor, and Frost and Snow.
# Posted on September 12th 2010 by fiddlentina
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I came on here tonight to look up The Hills of Coore (a Junior Crehan hornpipe that I haven't played in too long) because a friend mentioned it on Facebook moments ago. A fine tune.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/2157
# Posted on September 12th 2010 by GaryAMartin
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Poll Ha'Penny
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/841
# Posted on September 12th 2010 by Toppish
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The Honeysuckle is a very nice one, very stately and refined-sounding to my ear. Similar to the Cliffs, if I remember right, and I'll go and have a look and if I'm wrong I'll be back to say so.
# Posted on September 12th 2010 by Jon Kiparsky
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Yep. Very like that one, except without the Harvest Home bit.
# Posted on September 12th 2010 by Jon Kiparsky
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Two more fine hornpipes:
Woodcock Hill (The Back Of The Haggard),
The Flowing Tide.
# Posted on September 12th 2010 by nicholas
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Breandan McGlinchey's, Bank of Turf, Bantry Bay, Cal Calaghan's, Ebb Tide.
# Posted on September 12th 2010 by gam
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You might try some Northumbrian hornpipes written by James Hill - might stuff
# Posted on September 12th 2010 by gedpipes
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y
[just in case you need one]
# Posted on September 12th 2010 by ethical blend
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Surely the answers should be "Oiff to Californina", "Harivest Home", "The Bioys of Bluehill" etc ?
# Posted on September 12th 2010 by ethical blend
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I think we had you covered, nicholas.
Madame Bonaparte is great for mucking about with (subject to mates' agreement of course). I second gedpipes' suggestion too. That Charlie Lennon one, Dance of the Honeybees, is very nice too.
# Posted on September 12th 2010 by Steve Shaw
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I just thought of the Derry Hornpipe - another good 'un. I learned that off an old Corries LP, bless 'em.
# Posted on September 12th 2010 by Steve Shaw
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Dunphies'
# Posted on September 12th 2010 by mcknowall
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How about
The Attwood
The Cloone
John Cairey's Daughter
The Colisseum
# Posted on September 12th 2010 by pkev
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Here's a easy one, but still a good tune -
The Plains Of Boyle
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/652
jim,,,
# Posted on September 12th 2010 by FIDDLE4
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We like The Liverpool:
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/1500
& Cronin's:
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/478
We play 'em in a set, just like that.
# Posted on September 12th 2010 by SWFL Fiddler
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@Steve Shaw:
So you had! Wasn't paying attention...
# Posted on September 12th 2010 by nicholas
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I'm amazed that nobody has mentioned 'The High Level'
It's an age thing of course. Back in the mists of time it was one of the first tunes that was requested by punters, and if you couldn't play it you were classed as useless.
# Posted on September 12th 2010 by Free Reed
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I can't play it
# Posted on September 12th 2010 by gedpipes
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You could always try these:
The Browney Banks:
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/6311
The Bishopley Hornpipe:
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/8234
They are brilliant, spiffing tunes.
I wrote them.
...I couldn't RESIST that!! : - D
# Posted on September 12th 2010 by nicholas
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Did you say which instrument you play? There are some tunes that are easier to play on one, but more difficult on another, For instance "Harvest Home" is a doddle on the fiddle, but it's a right bugger on the old diatonic two row.
# Posted on September 12th 2010 by Ebor_fiddler
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I agree with the larger point, although to my fingers, there are few tunes easier on the B/C box than Harvest Home - when I can remember it. Half the time, I've got the other one (Home Ruler) in my head, and can't get Harvest Home at all.
So some tunes are easier on some instruments, but we haven't agreed on exactly which ones they are or if they're the same ones for different people.
# Posted on September 12th 2010 by Jon Kiparsky
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Harvest Home is almost incredibly easy on a harmonica, though it sounds almost incredibly clever when you play it. I like tunes like that.
# Posted on September 12th 2010 by Steve Shaw
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Harvest Home is fairly easy on fiddle and rather hard on a concertina. Concertinas don't particularly like repeated notes like the ones in the B music of Harvest Home. I've noticed other tunes (Joys of Wedlock comes to mind) that are easier on concertina than fiddle.
# Posted on September 13th 2010 by fiddlentina
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Poll Ha'penny has had me intrigued for quite some time now.
# Posted on September 13th 2010 by Gone to work
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In most cases Harvest Home is easier on the box player and fiddler than it is on the listener
# Posted on September 13th 2010 by ramblingpitchfork
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http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/4958
# Posted on September 13th 2010 by Kenny
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http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/8451
# Posted on September 13th 2010 by Kenny
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The Soporific - but not (as displayed) in D - for me it's much better in G, and most players I know play it in G.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/940
# Posted on September 13th 2010 by Toppish