Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on January 16th 2003 by slainte.
This tune has been added to 28 tunebooks.
Also known as The Milltimber.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Milltimber
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Dmaj
|:A|AFD A,DF|Adf aAa|gfe dcB|ABA GFE|
AFD A,DF|Adf aAa|gfe cAa|fdd d2 :|
|:e|f2e fga|gfg gef|gfe dcB|AaA a2g|
f2e fga|gfg gef|gfe cAa|fdd d2 :|
The Milltimber Jig
This is the original version of the jig penned by a man called Ian Chrichton. I don't know anything about him except he is Scottish.
I got to know this tune from the recording of Deaf Shepherd, a great Scottish band, and later found it was sometimes played in the beginners' session in Edinburgh. But it's getting popular in Ireland, too. I heard this jig played several times last summer. I don't remember well, but I think it was around Galway and West Clare.
It's obvisously a fiddle tune, but whistle and flute player can play AFD D2F adding a cut on the second D, instead of AFD A,DF.
Quite fashionable tune, so you should learn it.
# Posted on January 16th 2003 by slainte
Yep, this one's a gem. Lots of variation possibilities, and I love tunes inspired by mills when they capture that rhythmic circular feeling of the millwheels going around. Thanks for posting this one, Slainte!
# Posted on January 16th 2003 by Will CPT
You're welcome, Will. Yes, Miller's Maggot and Miller of Drohan are also nice.
I want responses from Ireland. Some of you already heared or played this tune in the session, right?
# Posted on January 16th 2003 by slainte
Thanks slainte. I lived in Milltimber for about a year, in the mid-eighties, but have never actually heard of this tune before.
I see this website, below, refers to it as a 'recent' Jig by Ian Crichton, so that might explain why?
http://www.nigelgatherer.com/tunes/tab/tab7/millt.html
# Posted on February 4th 2006 by Ptarmigan
The Milltimber Jig
Ptramigan said "I see this website...refers to it as a 'recent' Jig by Ian Crichton..."
It has to be said that I call many tunes written in the past 40 years as "recent". I don't actually know exactly when it was written, but I suspect around thew 1980s. I think I got my version from fiddler Derek Hoy of Edinburgh. I agree, a terrific tune.
# Posted on February 4th 2006 by nigelg