Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on January 18th 2003 by Dow.
This tune has been added to 49 tunebooks.
Also known as An Fáinne Óir, Fáinne Óir Ort, The Gold Ring No 2.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Gold Ring, The
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Dmaj
FE|:DB,A, DFA|~d3 ecA|~B3 AFD|{F}EDE FDB,|
~A,3 DFA|dfd ecA|B/c/dB AFE|1 FDC DFE:|2 FDC DdB||
|:AFA dfa|bgb afd|gbg faf|ede fdB|
~A3 dfa|bgb afd|B/c/dB AFA|1 Bdc dcB:|2 Bdc dfe||
|:dFF AFE|DFE DFA|~d3 {f}ede|fdB B2c|
{e}dFF AFE|DFE DFA|dfd ~e3|1 fdc dfe:|2 fdc dcB||
|:AFA ~d3|BAB dAF|DEF ~E3|FDB, B,dB|
AFA cd{e}d|~B3 dAF|DEF EDE|1 FDC DdB:|2 FDC D||
Every time I've tried playing this at a session people have said they knew *of* it, but didn't play it. Anyone go to a session where this D major "Gold Ring" gets played regularly??
# Posted on January 18th 2003 by Dow
Usually it's played by only two or three people rather than the whole crew. I've never learned all the parts myself -- I keep saying I'm going to. Perhaps I shall now.
Zina
# Posted on January 19th 2003 by Zina Lee
Can anyone tell me what "ort" means in this case? Does it mean "on you" - like: "Gold Ring On You"? I was wondering because it's different from the one in G, "An Fáinne Óir".
# Posted on January 19th 2003 by Dow
Never heard it played in a session yet, but I learned it from John Vesey's son Joe, who teaches in the Philadelphia area.
# Posted on January 19th 2003 by maderinerue
This is quite a popular tune in London sessions. It is one of at least three distinct tunes called The Gold Ring. The other two are both piping tunes in G, one of them associated with Willie Clancy.
# Posted on January 22nd 2003 by granama
David,
Would you be able to post the other one in G sometime (the one that's not here already)? Is it the O'Neill's version of the common one in G?
I know yet another "Gold Ring" in Amix. It can be found at Richard Robinson's index.
# Posted on January 22nd 2003 by Dow
Grainne Hambly, the harper from Belfast, has a wonderful version of this tune on her CD "Between the Showers." I highly recommend this CD.
# Posted on January 22nd 2003 by violynnsey
Dow, the "common" version I presume you refer to is already in The Session (www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/37), albeit not quite the setting I am used to. I will post my version in the comments section for that tune.
# Posted on January 24th 2003 by granama
"The Gold Ring"
Key signature: G Major
Submitted on January 25th 2003 by quirl.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/1371
# Posted on December 9th 2005 by ceolachan
Yet another gold ring...
This is pretty similar to Dow's version, but I heard Dezi Donnelly play this with Michael McGoldrick on The Full Set (it's on youtube - in the second half of the first segment of the show)
X: 1
T:Gold Ring
M:6/8
R:jig
K:D
DB,|: ~A,3 DFA|dfd ecA|~B3 AFD|EGF EDB,|~A,3 DFA|dfd ecA|B/2c/2dB AFA|
|1 Bdc d2B, :|2 Bdc d2B|: AFA dfa|bgb afd|~g3 ~f3|ede fdB|AFA dfa|
bgb afd|BGB AFA|1 Bdc d2B :|2 Bdc dfe|: dAF AFE|DB,A, DFA|~d3 ede|
fdB B2c|dAF AFE|EDC DFA|dcd e/2f/2gf|1edc dfe:|2edc d2B|: AFA dfd|
~B3 dAF|DEF EDE|FDB, B,2B|AFA dcd|~B3 dAF|DEF EDE|1FDC D2B:|2FDD D2B,|
# Posted on February 17th 2008 by airport