Tuttle's

reel

Key signature: Ddorian

Submitted on January 31st 2002 by Mad Baloney.

This tune has been added to 223 tunebooks.

Also known as Bobby Casey's, Casey's, The Custom Gap, Jug Of Punch, The Mills Are Grinding, The Millstones Are Grinding, The Turtle, Tuttle's, The Windy Gap.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

1891-1945 Disc 1 by Michael Coleman
40th Anniversary 1946 - 1986 by The Tulla Ceili Band
A Tribute To Paddy Cronin... Master Irish Fiddler by Tom Dunne
An Tris Is A Rian by Claire Keville, John Weir And Eithne Ni Dhonaile
Another Side Of Cape Breton by Johnny Wilmot
Aris by Le Cheile
At Early Dawn by Mike Dugger
Bach To Ireland by Vivian Minden And Julia Shaw
Castle Ceili Band by Castle Ceili Band
Ceol Agus Foinn : Music And Songs From The Willie Clancy Summer School by Various Artists
Cotton-Eyed Joe by The Chieftains
Drops Of Spring Water by Comhaltas Concert Tour 2004
Dusty Windowsill by Coquitlam Celtic Ensemble
Echoes Of Erin by Comhaltas Tour Group 1984
Elftones by The Elftones
Empty Pockets by Skip Healy
Fair Play by Patrick Ball
From Both Sides by Niamh Ni Charra
Gander In The Pratie Hole by Carlos Plumley And Mike Herr
Handprints by Donna Long
IAANJ Session V by Mike And Mary Rafferty And Session Musicians
If The Cap Fits by Kevin Burke
In Good Company - The Very Best Of by Kevin Burke
In Season by Wild Asparagus
In Your Ear by Seamus Egan
Irish Music For The Mandolin by Kevin McElroy
Irish Pennywhistle Taught By Cathal McConnell by Cathal McConnell
Knot Loitering by Knot Fibb'n
Late... In The Night by Christy Barry, Conor McCarthy, Cyril O'Donoghue
Live At Martyrs' by Gan Bua
Live At Trinity Hall by Trinity Hall Session Players
Live In Belfast by Paul Bradley, Pádraig Rynne And Paul Meehan
Melodic Journeys by James Kelly
Memoire Celte, Vol. 2 by Broken String
Micho Russell by Micho Russell
Moidart To Mabou by Daimh
Music From Co.Leitrim by Packie Duignan And Seamus Horan
Music On The Wind by Sean Moloney
Na Fir Bolg by Jack Talty And Cormac Begley
Navvy On The Shore by Danny Meehan
Nine Fine Irishmen's Sin E Ri-Ra by Sin E Ri-Ra
On The Leitrim Mountainside by Rosie Stewart
Orion by Orion
Part II: Fire In Our Hearts by Na Connerys
Picassiette by Betsy Branch And Mark Douglass
Potsticks by Sean Moloney
Raise The Rafters by Raise The Rafters
Redwood by Lunasa
Reunion by Daniel Lapp
Selection Box by Conor McCarthy And Alph Duggan
Set Dances Of Ireland, Volume IV by Various Artists
Simple System by Dan Isaacson
Sligo Fiddle (Disk 2) by John Vesey
Solo Run by Johnny McCarthy
Sometimes When The Moon Is High by Nightingale
Stark Ravin' by Roy Johnstone
Sully's Fancy by Tony Sullivan
Sweeney's Dream by Kevin Burke
Taking Flight by Bobby Casey
The Celtic Viol by Jordi Savall
The Dangerous Reel by Mike And Mary Rafferty
The Fiddle Case by Quentin Cooper, Eoin O'Neill, Eimear Howley
The Friendly Visit by Frank Brunel And Vincent Rosinach
The Great Bear Trio by The Great Bear Trio
The Green Fields Of Ireland by Comhaltas Tour Group 1979
The Green Mountain by Pat O'Connor
The Irish Girl by Robin Bullock And Michel Sikiotakis
The Journey Home by Banish Misfortune
The Mighty Box by Luke Daniels
The Mirthical Reel by Steve Mulhern And Ian Laws
The Piper Calls The Tune by Joe Finn
The Session by Na Connerys
The Tailor's Choice by Joe Burke
The Thing Itself by Maeve Donnelly And Peadar O'Loughlin
The Windy Gap by Laurence Nugent
Three Bean Salad by Three Bean Salad
Touch Me If You Dare by Ronan Browne And Peter O'Loughlin
Traditional Music Of Ireland by Paddy Carty And Conor Tully
Trip To Fanore by Eugene Lambe
Uncovered by Garry Walsh
Up Close by Kevin Burke
Waves Of Rush by Tabache
When All Is Said And Done by Danu
Wild Mountain Thyme by The McPeake Family
With A Lot Of Help From Their Friends by Mary Custy And Eoin O'Neill

Details ABC Sheetmusic Comments

I always associated this tune with Cape Breton, I don't know why. At one of the local sessions this is paired with Master Crowley's (DDor), Julia Delaney's, Tuttle's. I've heard this is AKA as "Mills are Grinding". Anyone able to shed light on this tune??

# Posted on January 31st 2002 by Mad Baloney

Origin

I have checked the Fiddler's Companion and this is listed as an Irish Slow Reel. They also list the alternate names that I have posted, one of which you already mentioned. Its on Kevin Burke's "Up Close".
Great tune
Cheers
Donough

# Posted on January 31st 2002 by Donough

The Custom Gap

Brad, I learned this as The Custom Gap (one of the names Donough posted) off an early Chieftains recording. From my perforated memory, either they paired it with My Love is in America (a close cousin of this melody), or the liner notes simply mis-identified it as such. It was Sean Keane solo, on fiddle rollicking through the Custom Gap.
Great post, Brad.

# Posted on January 31st 2002 by Will Harmon

Mistake in recordings

The reel is on the first Na Connerys CD not the second one. On the good CD, the reel is named "Casey's".

# Posted on March 7th 2004 by Washoo

My love is in america

this reel can be heard on "Within a Mile Of Dublin" (Paul O'Saughnessy & Paul McGrattan) where it is named "My Love Is In america".

# Posted on March 19th 2004 by Washoo

Also called the Windy Gap. I learned this one from an old 78 of Sligoman Paddy Sweeney, where it was called the "Custom Jap" for some reason - pre WWII tensions? Sweeney's medley was The Concert Reel/Custom Jap, which John Vesey recreates on his record.

# Posted on October 14th 2004 by KLR

Tuttle's = The Windy Gap

http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/1046

# Posted on October 14th 2004 by gian marco

Yeah, Paul O'Shaughnessy recorded this as the Donegal version of "My Love Is in America."

# Posted on December 23rd 2005 by slainte

Bobby Casey originally recorded (and possibly composed) this tune, named after his friend, fiddleplayer John Joe Tuttle

# Posted on January 24th 2006 by Prof. Prlwytzkofski

Tuttle's = The Windy Gap

I learned this years ago from the Roche Collection (1912) where it is called the "Custom Gap."

# Posted on May 3rd 2006 by dwdeacon

John Joe Tuttle

I met John Joe Tuttle in Miltown about ten years ago. He told me that Bobby Casey did indeed get the tune from him, but that he himself had learned it via the Paddy Sweeney 78. Since Sweeney's setting and name (despite the typo on the label) were the same as that in the Roche Collection, I'd bet Sweeney got it from the book. O'Neill's setting (one of his "Mills Are Grinding" tunes) is in a piper's version in an A mode rather then D.

# Posted on July 28th 2006 by blarneystar

Lunasa just played "Tuttles" at Girvan

As per the set from Redwood. Yes indeed Kevin Crawford said it was named after John Joe Tuttle whose nickname was "Nige" - apparently because John Joe's style was like that of the classical violinist Nigel Kennedy - I couldn't figure out how much of this was true or how much a joke - it got a big laugh though

# Posted on May 7th 2008 by Eachann mac Bodach

I can see the joke of suggesting John Joe sounds like Kennedy trying to play Irish music ;-) , at times he can be hard to follow

# Posted on May 8th 2008 by Prof. Prlwytzkofski

I learned this from Bobby Casey when I played gigs and sessions with him in London in the 1970s

# Posted on July 8th 2009 by tonysully

Interesting comments about this tune. I'd always thought of it as a West Clare tune. I think I first heard it played by Sean Casey (son of Bobby) in London. I've also met John Joe Tuttle a few times, but never made the connection with this tune.

# Posted on September 19th 2010 by CreadurMawnOrganig

A different title

This tune appears in Bulmer and Sharpley's "Music from Ireland" (book 4, #29) as 'Jug of Punch', which is also the alternate title given by Roche back in 1926 or so.

# Posted on May 3rd 2011 by rwwt

The explanation for this title being (mis)applied here is probably that the first few bars of Tuttle's are very similar to the start of the _real_ Jug of Punch (also in D dorian) at
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/594

# Posted on May 3rd 2011 by rwwt

John Joe Tuttle

I know John Joe. I'm happy to call the tune after him and to think of him when I play it. He has a wealth of tunes and is a great enthusiast.

# Posted on May 18th 2011 by David Levine

Looking at Jug of Punch, in O'Neill's Music of Ireland (yellow bible), I'm thinking this tune is the same. That would date it further back than Bulmer and Sharpley's.

# Posted on August 23rd 2011 by c.smitty