Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on February 3rd 2003 by lazyhound.
This tune has been added to 56 tunebooks.
Also known as Captain Pugwash.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Trumpet, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: hornpipe
K: Gmaj
|:(3GGG G2 (3GGG Gd|BGBd gdBG|(3DDD D2 (3DDD DA|FDFA cAFA|
(3GGG G2 (3GGG Gd|BGBd g2ag|fagf egfe|1 d2de dcBA:|2 d2de d2B=c||
|:(3ddd d2 (3ddd d2|efgf edcB|cded cBAG|FGAG FDEF|
(3GGG G2 (3BBB B2|(3ddd d2 g3b|agfe dcBA|1 G2B2 G2Bc :|2 G2B2 G4||
This is one of those fun-to-play, let-your-hair-down tunes that everyone recognizes, in the same class as the Sailor's Hornpipe, The Irish Washer Woman, and a few others I can't recollect at the moment. We played it in a Bristol session last Sunday, and, as usual, finished the 3rd playing with the alternative B part below, which always goes down well with the pub audience. Note the F nat in the 5th bar and the E flat in the 6th bar.
"alternative B part"
|:(3ddd d2 (3ddd d2|efgf edcB|cded cBAG|FGAG FDEF|
(3GGG G2 (3=FFF F2|(3EEE E2 (3_EEE E2|DGBe dcBA|1 G2B2 G2Bc :|2 G2B2 G4||
# Posted on February 3rd 2003 by lazyhound
Trumpet hornpipe !
Trevor,
I would have to say that this is not a tune I have ever heard any Irish musician play, and one I've always personally loathed.
If it's indicative of the type of tune played at sessions in Bristol, then sorry, but I wouldn't be sitting in. I predict a discussion along the lines of "The Irish Waterman" will follow, but maybe not.
At the end of the day, if it's a tune you like, then fine, but I never thought it would turn up on this website.
# Posted on February 4th 2003 by Kenny
Roger the cabin boy
captain pugwash.
that's all!
# Posted on February 4th 2003 by biggus dave
Kenny
I wouldn't say it's played all that frequently, just very occasionally for a bit of fun, that's all - as I indicated. Most of the musicians I know, in more than one musical genre, like to let their hair down sometimes. I can also assure you that The Trumpet isn't an indicator of the general run of tunes played in my area. I also believe the tune has been around for a long time - it's in O'Neill and elsewhere.
# Posted on February 4th 2003 by lazyhound
Kenny, no way does this even come close to "The Irish Waterman". That's a true classic!
# Posted on February 4th 2003 by Dow
Perhaps the tune should be renamed "The Strumpet" - vulgar but good fun!
# Posted on February 4th 2003 by lazyhound
bigdave youre right - it is captain Pugwash...wow that brings me back to when I was 4- I cant see how this is either particularly fun to play or listen too.
# Posted on February 4th 2003 by bb
Trumpet
Glad to hear that , Trevor. Maybe I will drop in on Bristol someday, after all!. And Dow, it is much,much worse than "The Irish Waterman" !!
# Posted on February 4th 2003 by Kenny
When and where you play it depends on who's listening. Last Sunday the country pub just outside Bristol had a couple of dozen lively 20-somethings who really appreciated it and the more regular ITM we played. Another pub, another clientele - no, I don't think we would have played it.
# Posted on February 4th 2003 by lazyhound
The heck is this?
Looks like a series of arpeggios for the G major and D major chords.
# Posted on February 5th 2003 by glauber
Trumpet
I've never been bewrayethed in my life. And I don't believe even Frankie Gavin could make anything of this particular tune.
# Posted on February 5th 2003 by Kenny
Bewray
An archaic form of "betray". Sort of what this tune does to good musical taste.
# Posted on February 5th 2003 by glauber
Arpeggios in The Trumpet
Every tune I've come across consists of fragments of scales and arpeggios - it's characteristic of western music, so I don't see a problem with the arpeggios in this tune - 3 ascending G maj, 1 descending ditto, 1 D7, and a few fragments. And plenty of scale passages, including a complete descending scale. Any page of O'Neill will give plenty of similar examples. Anyway, it's all good practice for Welsh harp hornpipes
# Posted on February 5th 2003 by lazyhound
Arsch
e flat,my arse,pooka! - any supernatural entity can easily tell that the home key is D sharp major...
still hung up on the even numbers???
that flan o'brien's a bit of a bugger,is n't he!
ps: give my regards to jimmy stewart & harvey
# Posted on February 5th 2003 by biggus dave
Trumpet Hornpipe - its Northumbrian
The Trumpet Hornpipe doesn't work if you play it as an Irish Hornpipe. It doesn't really work if you play it in the English style asits too stodgey. You need toplay it in the Northumbrian (more specifically the Tyneside) style with very articulated notes, quite a bit of swing and lots of bounce. Good Northumbrian players make this one fly.
Noel Jackson
Angels of the North
# Posted on February 8th 2003 by noelbats
The Trumpet is played a lot in Northumberland but is it Northumbrian? Specifically what source??
# Posted on February 8th 2003 by Dow
It's in O'Niell's - therefore must have had an Irish identity at some point in it's history - and I've got a ceili band recording of it. It probably wouldn't sound so bad if it hadn't been murdered by Capt. Pugwash. It's sounds a nice wee fun tune on the box, in between all the big reel sets - light relief.
# Posted on February 10th 2003 by Key Maniac Lad
Awaking the BOFs ~
T: Strumpet, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: hornpipe
K: Gmaj
|: (3DEF |
(3GGG G2 (3GGG G2 | B>GB>d g>dB>G | (3DDD D2 (3DDD D2 | F*DF>A d>B (3cBA |
(3GGG G2 (3GGG G2 |B>GB*d g2 a>g|f>ag>f e>gf>e| (3ddd d>^c d2 :|
|: B>=c |
(3ddd d2 (3ddd d2 | e*fg>f e>dc*B | c>de>d c>BA*G | F>GA>G F*DE>F |
(3GGG G2 (3=FFF F2|(3EEE E2 (3^DDD D2 |(3DED fe (3ded (3cBA | G2 B2 G2 :|
Contributing to the delinquency of minors...
# Posted on June 8th 2005 by ceolachan
Scottish
the tune is scottish
# Posted on September 2nd 2005 by S.McMullen
Is that so ?
Evidence for that , please ?
# Posted on September 2nd 2005 by Kenny
The Trumpet Hornpipe
Listen to Sean McGuire play this tune: http://www.rte.ie/radio1/thelatesession/rams/27march.smil (starts around 10:30)
The whole programme "A Tribute to Sean McGuire" was originally broadcast on 27th March in 2005, and found in the Late Session Programme Listing 2005: http://www.rte.ie/radio1/story/1034196.html
# Posted on July 13th 2006 by slainte
Love it or loathe it
If you play any kind of box then you just have to be able to play it. It is the equivalent of having a guitar, and not learning the opening bars to stairway to heaven. It is far less hassle to crank it out on demand and get on with things, than to try to explain to some drunk who only knows the name of one tune for the instrument why not.
# Posted on February 18th 2007 by ubendum
PS.
You have to learn the sailors hornpipe too!
# Posted on February 18th 2007 by ubendum
ITM Snobbery
I think its funny the amount of ITM snobs on here now. Whatever tune someone wants to play should be up to them. If a children's programme used this hornpipe as it's theme tune, surely it should be welcomed as an introduction to Trad music, lets face it there are not as many kids in sessions as there are at the local clubs.
The tune is a bit of fun and entertaining, if you think otherwise, maybe you should ask yourself why you play the music in the first place.
# Posted on September 28th 2007 by Accordionstu
ITM Snobs
The 'fun' is also in making comment Accordionstu, don't read everything you find here as 'serious'. We all like to have a laugh now and then. The truth is usually cruel in that sometimes name calling, or passing judgement on others, is signs of our suffering the affliction ourselves. Don't let the banter overcome your senses. I have in the past, and it doesn't accomplish much of use...
Our rants and banter are mostly "a bit of fun and entertaining", for us anyway... It may be wise for others who haven't that understanding or appreciation to just let it pass overhead, or underfoot, wherever you find yourself, real or imagined...
Keep the faith ~ 'c'
# Posted on September 28th 2007 by ceolachan
Snobs ?
You got there before me "c". I'll let this one pass.
# Posted on September 28th 2007 by Kenny
Banter
Cheers Ceolachan for the comment, I enjoy reading the comments on here as much as anyone, however I thought that the first comment and use of the word 'loathed' . was stronger than banter. But I made my comment and would hope that neither you or Kenny take it too serious.
It's only a comment and only a laugh after all.
# Posted on September 29th 2007 by Accordionstu
Fair play stu ~ 'loathed' is actually a nice word in a fun sort of way, including how it forms in the mouth and reverberates in the ears. We all at some point slip up and let our negative feelings escape toward something we might consider 'dag' (do a search with 'dag' in 'discussions') or that we've overplayed or heard too many times being ripped through. But, it isn't one I find myself using, though the sentiment may be felt, especially with the increasing wave of 'new' tunes and so-called 'new' ways of treating them...myself not excepted...
# Posted on September 29th 2007 by ceolachan
Nice one
I see where you are coming from Ceolachan, I suppose murder is a nice word, especially in a Scottish accent. I must admit I enjoy the trumpet hornpipe owing to my previous life in a marching band but the tune that drives me mad now is the masons apron. Apart from hearing it murdered at every session, I was eventually put off by watching Davy Arthur at our local on banjo, it was a blur and a messy blur at that.
Lets see some more sliabh lucra tunes.
# Posted on September 30th 2007 by Accordionstu