Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on December 14th 2002 by geoffwright.
This tune has been added to 24 tunebooks.
Also known as Punchenella's Hornpipe, Punchinello's Hornpipe, Risty Gulley (in The Original Vickers' Format), Rusty Gulley, Rusty Gully, The Rusty Gully, Three Rusty Swords, Three Sharp Knives.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Rusty Gulley, The
M: 3/2
L: 1/8
R: three-two
K: Gmaj
|:G/A/B/c/ dG BG|FA Ac BA|G/A/B/c/ dG BG|DG GB AG:|
|:g2 f2 eg|fd df ed|ce Bd Ac|BG GB AG:|
Easy to learn
I used this as an introduction to triple hornpipes at a local session (George & Dragon) and everyone could play it by the end of the evening. They always ask for it now!
# Posted on December 15th 2002 by geoffwright
For those who don't speak Geordie, a "gulley" is a large knife. I don't think "The Large Rusty Knife" would have had quite the same ring to it...
# Posted on December 26th 2002 by Dow
Is this this written in 3/4?
This is a neat tune but the notation seems to be off - if it is written in 3/2 ... Is this the way it's played or has been written prior to this submission?
# Posted on May 17th 2003 by 2situla
3/2 vs 3/4
The convention is to notate them in 3/2, but they get played more as if the notes were half the length (same thing with Irish reels). So some people notate 3/2s in 3/4, e.g. in printed tunebooks.
# Posted on May 17th 2003 by Dow
I personnaly like it in minor and in: '2+1/2' (or '4+2/8')
with an 'aksak' feel ratherthan the traditional solfah-ic way of stressing beats in the bar...
# Posted on September 27th 2006 by birlibirdie
Shetlandish
I learned this song off of Kevin Henderson, and he told me it was a fairly common tune on the Shetlands. Nice easy tune.
# Posted on September 7th 2007 by Craic Shack Zach
Rusty Gulley
This tune appears as "Risty Gulley" [sic] in the Vickers' manuscript (1770) but the second and fourth bars of each part (A + B) are very carefully written out as 6/8 bars i.e. two lots of three rather than three lots of two. This makes the tune a million times more interesting and about twenty times harder to play!! The Germans have similar tunes known as Zwiefache. (Zwie implying duality rather than the obvious Zwei meaning two!)
# Posted on April 1st 2008 by robbpipes