The Spindle Shank

reel

Key signature: Gmajor

Submitted on March 14th 2004 by turophile.

This tune has been added to 40 tunebooks.

Also known as McGettrick's, Spindleshanks.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

• Barefoot On The Altar by Chulrua
• Contentment Is Wealth by Matt Molloy And Sean Keane
• Cotton-Eyed Joe by The Chieftains
• Faoi Bhlath by Dave Sheridan, Ciaran Somers, Nicolas Quemener
• Fourmilehouse by Alan And John Kelly
• Fourmilehouse by Alan And John Kelly
• Kelly/O'Brien/Sproule by Kelly, O'Brien and Sproule
• Live At The Burren Centre, Kilfenora by Kevin Griffin, Eoin O'Neill And Quentin Cooper
• Lucky In Love by Charlie Lennon And Mick O'Connor
• Music Of North Connacht by Innisfree Céilí Band
• Round The House: Music For The Sets Volume 1 by Various Artists
• Snug In The Blanket by Paddy O'Brien
• The Irish Concertina Two by Noel Hill
• The Side Over by Jeremy Spencer And Sean Leahy
• Tippin' Away by Damien Connolly And Pete Mancuso
• Traditional Music Of Ireland by Paddy O'Brien

X: 1
T: Spindle Shank, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Gmaj
d2ge dBAG|FDAD BDAD|~G3E DGBG|FAdc BGGd:|
|:gedB cAAg|fdad bdad|gedB cAAc|dega bggf:|

The Spindle Shank can be heard as the third in the set of four reels on track 3 of Cotton-eyed Joe (The Chieftains 10).

# Posted on March 14th 2004 by turophile

Belfast flute player Michael Clarkson recorded this tune as The Small Hills of Offaly. There is another tune posted here by this name:

http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/2101

There is also a better known tune by the name of Spindle Shanks (also known as Mulqueen's):

http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/66

# Posted on March 18th 2004 by CreadurMawnOrganig

McGettrick's

I know this as McGettrick's. I picked it up from our session & it's a great tune. Are there any other albums apart from Chieftains 10 where this tune is entitled Spindle Shank?

# Posted on May 18th 2005 by Dr. Dow

I think Charlie Lennon has also recorded this tune as "Spindleshanks" on "Lucky in Love" (?). Been a while since I heard that recording. Nearly sure that the tune has been recorded as "McGettrick's" by Paddy O'Brien and James Kelly.

# Posted on May 18th 2005 by LongNote

"Spindleshanks"

I've just posted "Lucky In Love" in the recording section. This reel is indeed on that record as "Spindleshanks", and interestingly, [ for "Dow" ] , the sleeve notes say: "Got from Jimmy McGettrick, a flute player from Lissinanny near Ballymote in Co. Sligo". That would explain how it came to be known as McGettrick's".

# Posted on May 19th 2005 by Kenny

The sleeve notes from "The Chieftains 10" for this tune are very similar to those from "Lucky in Love": "The Spindle Shank Reel, a reel Matt Molloy learned from Jimmy McGettrick, a tin-whistle and flute player from Lissinany County Sligo."

# Posted on March 28th 2008 by turophile

Jimmy McGettrick's

From the playing of Fiona Doherty on fiddle and FInbar McGreevy on flute.

X: 1
T: Jimmy McGettrick’s
S: Fiona Doherty, Finbar McGreevy, Comholtas video: http://comhaltas.ie/music/detail/comhaltaslive_271_1_finbar_mcgreevy_and_fiona_doherty/
M: 4/4
L: 1/9
K: G
d2 eB dBAG|F/E/D AD BDAF|G2 FE D~G3|FGAc BGGB|
dgeB dBAG|F/E/D AD BDAF|G2 FE D~G3|FGAc BGBd||
gedB cBAg|fdad bdaf|gedB cBAB|dega bggf|
gedB cBAg|fdad bdaf|gedB cBAB|dega b~g3||

# Posted on September 11th 2008 by Will Harmon

L: 1/9 ?

What the hell ?

# Posted on November 25th 2008 by Emmanuel Delahaye

L:1/9

such is my nature, that I shoved Will's abc through tune-o-tron with the L:1/9
All was well - it interpreted it as the usual L:1/8
In fact L:1/5 through to L:1/15 did the same

# Posted on November 25th 2008 by domnull