Key signature: Adorian
Submitted on May 27th 2003 by Jamie.
This tune has been added to 32 tunebooks.
Also known as Braes Of Balquidder, Chùir I Glùin Air A' Bhodaich, Chuir I Gluin Air A Bhodach, Chuir I Gluin Air A' Bhodach, The Old , She Put A Knee In The Old Man, She Put Her Knee On The Old Man.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Old, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Ador
AB d2 Bd e2|AB d2 ed BG|AB d2 Bd e2|d(B ~B2) AB AG:|
ef g2 fg a2|ef g2 ag fd|ef g2 fg a2|d(B ~B2) AB AG|
ef g2 fg a2|ef g2 ag fd|ef ge fd e2|d(B ~B2) AB AG||
The Old Reel
This tune, which I know as "the old reel" came from the patrick street album "street life". It is one of the smoothest sweetest melancholic reel which has great simplicity and is played fast with little that isn't slurred. It is a great tune. A friend of mine reckons it is a tune of Scottish origin. It is followed "street life" by a quite different version of drowsey maggie.
# Posted on May 27th 2003 by Jamie
I'm fairly certain it's a Scottish tune - I think there are a few tunes one tune in the Athole collection - both reels and strathspeys - to which it bears a resemblance. It sounds like a cousin of the old Scots Border song, Ca' the Yowes tae the Knowes.
# Posted on May 28th 2003 by OrganicPeatCreature
Chuir I Gluin Air A Bhodach
This tune - which Patrick Street play as 'The Old Reel' is originally a strathspey called Chuir I Gluin Air A Bhodach which translates as 'She put her knee on the old man' . See Ceol Na Fidhle (The Fiddle Music of the Scottish Highlands) Vols 5 and 6 p.83
# Posted on January 22nd 2005 by Edgar Bolton
Ossian recorded a different reel called "The Old Reel." Does anybody know it?
# Posted on January 23rd 2005 by slainte
Chuir I gluin was originally a very old pipe reel (see Skye Collection). The Ossian tune is the Scottish (original?) version of the Bunch of Keys
# Posted on April 26th 2009 by niall_kenny