Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on January 16th 2003 by slainte.
This tune has been added to 38 tunebooks.
Also known as The Milltimber, Milltimbre, Miltimbre.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Milltimber
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Dmaj
|:A|AFD A,DF|Adf aAa|gfe dcB|ABA GFE|
AFD A,DF|Adf aAa|gfe cAa|fdd d2 :|
|:e|f2e fga|gfg gef|gfe dcB|AaA a2g|
f2e fga|gfg gef|gfe cAa|fdd d2 :|
The Milltimber Jig
This is the original version of the jig penned by a man called Ian Chrichton. I don't know anything about him except he is Scottish.
I got to know this tune from the recording of Deaf Shepherd, a great Scottish band, and later found it was sometimes played in the beginners' session in Edinburgh. But it's getting popular in Ireland, too. I heard this jig played several times last summer. I don't remember well, but I think it was around Galway and West Clare.
It's obvisously a fiddle tune, but whistle and flute player can play AFD D2F adding a cut on the second D, instead of AFD A,DF.
Quite fashionable tune, so you should learn it.
# Posted on January 16th 2003 by slainte
Yep, this one's a gem. Lots of variation possibilities, and I love tunes inspired by mills when they capture that rhythmic circular feeling of the millwheels going around. Thanks for posting this one, Slainte!
# Posted on January 16th 2003 by Will Harmon
You're welcome, Will. Yes, Miller's Maggot and Miller of Drohan are also nice.
I want responses from Ireland. Some of you already heared or played this tune in the session, right?
# Posted on January 16th 2003 by slainte
Thanks slainte. I lived in Milltimber for about a year, in the mid-eighties, but have never actually heard of this tune before.
I see this website, below, refers to it as a 'recent' Jig by Ian Crichton, so that might explain why?
http://www.nigelgatherer.com/tunes/tab/tab7/millt.html
# Posted on February 4th 2006 by Ptarmigan
The Milltimber Jig
Ptramigan said "I see this website...refers to it as a 'recent' Jig by Ian Crichton..."
It has to be said that I call many tunes written in the past 40 years as "recent". I don't actually know exactly when it was written, but I suspect around thew 1980s. I think I got my version from fiddler Derek Hoy of Edinburgh. I agree, a terrific tune.
# Posted on February 4th 2006 by nigelg
Milltimber Jig / Ian Crichton
Ian Crichton was born on the east coast of the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides in the 1930's. Self taught chanter player as a boy when hospitalised. Moved to accordion(s). Prolific tune composer. First tune composed in the 1950's.
Milltimber Jig dedicated to friends who lived in Milltimber, Aberdeen.
Relied on friends to transcribe his music. Used to say "I don't read or write the dots - at least not well enough for it to have done me any serious harm".
# Posted on February 8th 2010 by fifer