Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on October 19th 2009 by Jürgen.
This tune has been added to 12 tunebooks.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Doon Da Rooth
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Gmaj
G2G BdB|gdB AGB-|B2d edB|A2B G2G|
BdB gdB|AG B3A|1BGG G2G:|2BGG GBd|]
|:g2g dgg|edB AGB-|B2d eee|e2f g2g|
dgg edB|AG B3A|1BGG GBd:|2BGG GED|]
Learned this from the Aamos lads, either a Shetland or a Norwegian tune, I suppose. Is there a proper name for it?
Yes, it does have only 7 bars/part.
# Posted on October 19th 2009 by Jürgen
Tune - Doon da Rooth
It's an old Shetland tune, it's called Doon da Rooth. I learnt it from one of the lads in Fiddlers Bid. Here's the wee note that was on the copy of the music i got ;
"For many years, opinions differed as to what this unusual tune could have been used for. Tom Anderson discovered that in all probability it was a spinning tune. The rooth isan Unst word for the leather part that holds the "flee" where the thread goes in on a spinning wheel."
# Posted on October 22nd 2009 by SallyS
Thanks a million, sallyfiddle! And now I know why it sounded so familiar - it's on Anderson/Bain's The Silver Bow.
# Posted on October 23rd 2009 by Jürgen
Rooth's
The "flee" must be the "flyer", but I can't think of an equivalent name for the leather bits holding a flyer - I'd just call them bearings.
(ps searching this out, I found an alternative explanation of the name, being a corruption of Neil Gow's "Drown Drouth")
# Posted on October 23rd 2009 by spindizzy