Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on May 31st 2007 by mallette.
This tune has been added to 12 tunebooks.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Gargoyle, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Dmaj
|:dc|B~F3 BFdF|BFFD E3F|GFEF GBAF |GFFE F2 DF|
BdBG A~F3|GBGE F2FE|D~F3 DFBF|GEFA B2:|
|:de|f2df gfed|ecAc e2fe|d~B3 F~B3|cAB/c/d e2de|
fbfd ~e3c|dfdB c2dc|B~F3DFBF|GEFA B2:|
This tune started falling out of my whistle in early May 2007, and finished itself in just a couple of days.
# Posted on May 31st 2007 by mallette
It is a nice tune.
It doesn't sound Irish (at all) and, strange as it might sound, I feel that 'reel' doesn't describe it well either; it feels more like a...waltz!
# Posted on June 4th 2007 by birlibirdie
Recording this tune.
We have up on YouTube a video of our band in the studio recording this tune. To hear what it sounds like, check out
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKJ5rYZnbTY>;
It's the third tune in the reel set.
# Posted on September 14th 2011 by mallette
The recording is out!
First Steps was released this month by The Jig Is Up!
Available on CDBaby and iTunes.
# Posted on November 28th 2011 by mallette
Whence the title?
According to Matt Cranitch, Dennis Murphy's fiddle had a gargoyle carved on the end in place of the usual scroll.
# Posted on November 28th 2011 by mallette
Gargoyle
I don't think it was a gargoyle, he played one of those Mittenwalder Steiner copies that were popular in Ireland because they were thought to be louder than your average fiddle. They had lion heads instead of a scroll.
Actually have one in the house myself, although I am not completely sure where it is.
# Posted on November 28th 2011 by Prof. Prlwytzkofski
Me too...
# Posted on November 29th 2011 by ceolachan
C: Larry Mallette -
band: The Jig is Up!
http://www.thejigisupband.com/
# Posted on November 29th 2011 by ceolachan
We've put up a video of the band doing a medley that includes this tune:
Check out item 11, Major Moran's No. 1 / Big Pat's / The Gargoyle
at
http://thejigisupband.com/blog/?page_id=88
# Posted on March 10th 2012 by mallette