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Gan Ainm

reel

Key signature: Gmajor

Submitted on January 17th 2010 by robinlew.

This tune has been added to 4 tunebooks.

Also known as Sollus Lillis.

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X: 1
T: Gan Ainm
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Gmaj
|: G2 FG EGDE | G2 BG dGBA | GAFG EGDG | (3Bcd ed BdAB |
G2 FG EGDE | G2 BG dGBA | G2 FG EGDG | (3Bcd ed BA A2 :|
|: BA A2 BAGA | BA A2 (3Bcd ed| BA A2 BAGE | DEGA (3Bcd ed |
BA A2 BAGA | BA A2 (3Bcd ed | BA A2 BAGE | DEGA BdAB :|

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Gan Ainm sheetmusic
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Anyone know this reel

I got it from Deidre, so it could be called Deirdre's reel, unless someone comes up with another name for it.

# Posted on January 17th 2010 by robinlew

Solus Lillis

How could it be called Deirdre's reel? You can't just give tunes names willie nilly. It's called Solus Lillis.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/4001

# Posted on January 17th 2010 by bogman

Finding tunes name

I strongly recommend this excellent online application called "Tunepal" :

http://www.comp.dit.ie/bduggan/music/matt2/index.php

For example: "Solus Lillis' Reel" came on the first position with the ABC you have posted.

Emmanuel

# Posted on January 17th 2010 by Emmanuel Delahaye

Of course you can just give tunes names willie nilly. That's probably how it was called "Solus Lillis" in the first place.

Fifty years ago, Paddy Canny, P Joe Hayes, Peadar O'Loughlin, and Bridie Lafferty named Sean Ryan's "Glen of Aherlow" "Lafferty's" willie nilly. Many people still call it that.

# Posted on January 17th 2010 by GaryAMartin

That is bull. No you can't Gary. I detest that attitude. You record a copyright tune and name it whatever you like and see how popular you are with the composer.

# Posted on January 17th 2010 by bogman

Here is just one example of a popular tune that caused a rumpus by being wrongly named. http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/518

# Posted on January 17th 2010 by bogman

I didn't express an attitude; I pointed out that it is possible to do something, which is what the word "can" means. I said nothing about whether it is appropriate to do so. People make up names for existing tunes quite often, and sometimes those names stick. That's all I said.

# Posted on January 17th 2010 by GaryAMartin

One of Mama's Pets

Solus Lillis was a Clare concertina player, and this tune was called after him in the first volume of Breathnach's Ceol Rince books. It is one of a large family of tunes, most often called "Mama's Pet," that share a version of the first part. Compare "Timothy Downing's" in O'Neill.

# Posted on January 22nd 2010 by blarneystar

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