Sterling Tom

reel

Key signature: Fmajor

Submitted on November 24th 2009 by Jürgen.

This tune has been added to 6 tunebooks.

Also known as Francie Dearg's.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

• Fidil 3 by Fidil
• Lá Lugh by Lá Lugh
• Wooden Flute Obsession: Volume 3, Disc 1 by Various Artists

X: 1
T: Sterling Tom
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Fmaj
|:(3fff|fcAc FcAF|(3EFG cG ECCe|fcAc FcAc|defg affe|
fcAc FcAF|(3EFG cG ECCE|FAcf agfe|1fcAc F2:|2 fcAc F2A2||
|:d3e f2fg|a^gab a=gfe|d^cde f2Ag|afed dcBA|
dAeA fAgA|a2 (3fga gbag|fed^c dBAG|1F2~E2 DEFA:|2~F2EF D2|]

From La Lugh's first album. IIRC discovered by Gerry O'Connor in some obscure Northern Irish collection.
Undecided yet whether to call it a proper (albeit slowish and swingy) reel or rather an unusual hornpipe. (In any case it's a "tune".)

Goes well for me between Pottinger's Reel and (for a laugh) The Tailor's Twist in d minor.

# Posted on November 24th 2009 by Jürgen

This tune appears in Josephine Keegan's 2004 Collection "A Drop in the Ocean" (page 30, #38).

# Posted on March 12th 2011 by rwwt