The links attached by the site to the track listing will lead you to quite a few tunes that have little or nothing to do with those on the record. Among them are the Pigeon on the Gate (which is an older setting in A - NH also plays it on the duet record with Tony Linnane), the Gold Ring (a two-part jig that I don't recall hearing elsewhere and nothing to do with any of the multipart Gold Rings) and McDermott's - which inexplicably takes you to that ghastly tune, the Tinker's Daughter by Vincent Broderick (actually I don't really mean that, it's actually one of VB's better efforts) .
Oh yes, and the Lark in the Morning is another tune that I haven't heard before. Farewell to Ireland is not the four part A tune listed on the site, but a common two-part reel in D that seems to have a plethora of names, including The Flying Column and Austin Tierney's (as F Gavin calls it) - is it also known as Farewell to Erin? I can't remember, I think that's another tune still, also known as the Rising Sun. My brain fails me.
Farewell to Erin and Farewell to Ireland are two different tunes which have been commonly confused. He plays Farewell to Ireland not Erin!
And the Lark in the Morning is a mistake. In actual fact he play the Morning Lark.
The link the site attaches to "The Gold Ring" leads to the multi-part Gold Ring in G, which indeed is *not* the tune on the album. NH is actually playing 3 parts of a different four-part tune also called "Gold Ring" but in D. The D tune he's playing *is* available on this site - just search amongst the various Gold Rings! The recording actually sounds in F#, so's you can't play along in D. I'm betting even NH doesn't really play it in F# on an anglo box! Yow.
The Irish Concertina
The links attached by the site to the track listing will lead you to quite a few tunes that have little or nothing to do with those on the record. Among them are the Pigeon on the Gate (which is an older setting in A - NH also plays it on the duet record with Tony Linnane), the Gold Ring (a two-part jig that I don't recall hearing elsewhere and nothing to do with any of the multipart Gold Rings) and McDermott's - which inexplicably takes you to that ghastly tune, the Tinker's Daughter by Vincent Broderick (actually I don't really mean that, it's actually one of VB's better efforts) .
# Posted on September 19th 2003 by Jeeves Tones
Afterthoughts
Oh yes, and the Lark in the Morning is another tune that I haven't heard before. Farewell to Ireland is not the four part A tune listed on the site, but a common two-part reel in D that seems to have a plethora of names, including The Flying Column and Austin Tierney's (as F Gavin calls it) - is it also known as Farewell to Erin? I can't remember, I think that's another tune still, also known as the Rising Sun. My brain fails me.
# Posted on September 19th 2003 by Jeeves Tones
Farewell to Erin and Farewell to Ireland are two different tunes which have been commonly confused. He plays Farewell to Ireland not Erin!
And the Lark in the Morning is a mistake. In actual fact he play the Morning Lark.
# Posted on April 21st 2006 by PaddyCmusic
The Gold Ring
The link the site attaches to "The Gold Ring" leads to the multi-part Gold Ring in G, which indeed is *not* the tune on the album. NH is actually playing 3 parts of a different four-part tune also called "Gold Ring" but in D. The D tune he's playing *is* available on this site - just search amongst the various Gold Rings! The recording actually sounds in F#, so's you can't play along in D. I'm betting even NH doesn't really play it in F# on an anglo box! Yow.
# Posted on May 11th 2006 by Ron W
Pigeon on the Gate is a strange version in Am I think.
# Posted on June 21st 2006 by PaddyCmusic