Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on November 22nd 2004 by meri-lawes.
This tune has been added to 15 tunebooks.
Also known as The Devonshire Lads, The Grand Hornpipe, The Portheinon Whim, The Portheynon Whim, Stables Grand, Stables' Grand.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Mympwy Portheinon
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: hornpipe
K: Gmaj
|B2Bc dedc|B2Bc dedc|B2G2 GABG|A2D2 D2dc|
B2Bc dedc|B2Bc dedc|BdGB AcFA|1GFGA G2dc:|2GFGA G2Bd||
|:gfga gdBd|gfga gdBd|gfga b2g2|fefg afed|
edef gece|dcde dBGB|AGAB cAFA|1GFGA G2Bd:|2GFGA G2dc||
This is a tune I heard played by Crasdant(a welsh trad band) and I think it's a sweet tune!!
# Posted on November 22nd 2004 by meri-lawes
More like a hornpipe than a reel but such distinctions vary from one tradition to another. It was recorded by Eliza Carthy as The Grand Hornpipe, on her album 'Heat, Light and Sound', taken from the English collection, 'A Northern Lass'.
I have also heard this tune from box player Gary Northeast, an Englishman living in Wales and specialising in Welsh traditional music. Although he knows it by its Welsh name, he also has an alternative English name for it - something like The Boys of Devon or The Devon Lads.
# Posted on November 22nd 2004 by CreadurMawnOrganig
Well well well
That's funny I play in Gary Northeast's band!A lot of tunes seem to be adopted to the different Celtic nations and called their own.It just goes to show we don't really know if they are Welsh,Irish or Scottish!
# Posted on November 22nd 2004 by meri-lawes
I met Gary busking in Newtown this September. We met up again the following night at a session in Llanidloes.
# Posted on November 22nd 2004 by CreadurMawnOrganig
The Devon Lads
By the way "The March of The Lads of Devon" is a completly different tune.Mympwy means Whim so it would be "Portheinon's Whim"
# Posted on November 24th 2004 by meri-lawes
"Portheinon's Whim"
Portheinon = Port Eynon, a placename, down on the Gower Coast, with a beach...
Mympwy = whim ~ "mum - poy" ~ 'poy' like 'boy', but with a 'p', or if you know the stuff, like a certain foodstuff in the South Pacific and surrounds...
Portheinon ~ "poor - th - eye - n - on" ~ the 'th' is unvoiced, as in 'both' or 'bath'...
"Mympwy Portheinon" ~ "Mum-poy Porth-eye-non"
# Posted on January 14th 2007 by ceolachan
Mympwy Portheinon
aka Stables' Grand Hornpipe (name added to get it to link to a CD)
# Posted on July 13th 2008 by spindizzy
Origin of name
I believe that this tune was found nameless in a manuscript and named Mympwy Portheinon (the Portheinon Whim) after an event involving the purchase of a very colourful shirt by Robin Huw Bowen of Crasdant, in Portheinon.
Beautiful little tune!
# Posted on February 20th 2010 by eiluned