Dermot Byrne's

hornpipe

Key signature: Gmajor

Submitted on September 7th 2003 by GaryAMartin.

This tune has been added to 16 tunebooks.

Also known as Brid Harper's, Brid Harper’s, Denis Lanctot's, Grant Lamb's.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

• Altan by Altan
• Altan's Finest by Altan
• Callan Bridge by Niall And Cillian Vallely
• Fonnchaoi by Verena Commins And Julie Langan
• In Praise Of Lissycasey by Various Artists
• Live In Concert by Brid Harper And Dermot Byrne
• Ocean View by Shanachie
• Once Again (1987-1993) by Altan
• Sceal Eile by Gerry Harrington And Eoghan O'Sullivan
• Temple House 2 by Temple House Ceili Band
• The Piper's Rest by Jimmy Morrison
• The Roseland Barndance by North Cregg
• The Silver Spire by Karen Tweed
• The Tidy Cottage by Turlach Boylan
• The Ways Of The World by Mary Custy And Eoin O'Neill
• Tony McManus by Tony McManus
• Traditional Irish Music From Doolin Co. Clare by Terry Bingham
• Unearthed by Paul McGlinchey

X: 1
T: Dermot Byrne's
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: hornpipe
K: Gmaj
Bc|:dgfg (3efg dg|bgd'g bggb|c'bag (3fed ef|gabe' d'2 Bc|
dgfg (3efg dg|bgd'g bggb|c'bag (3fed ef|g2 gf [1g2Bc:|[2gedB||
|:G2 (3BAG EGDE|GBdg edBd|ec (3ccc dBAG|FGAF DEFD|
G2 (3BAG EGDE|GBdg edBd|eGce dBAG|FGAF [1GEDE:|[2G2 Bc|]

Anybody know anything about this tune?

I got this from Cathy Custy's great CD An Ceoltoir Fanach. She plays it on concertina. I play it on a 21 button B/C accordion with the high f# on the push re-tuned to a high d. It's a fun tune. But Custy's liner notes say nothing about it.

There's a reel at thesession.org by the same name, but it's not the same tune. There's a jig by the same name on Altan's Finest. There's nothing else by this name on any of the other Altan albums whose contents I've been able to locate. This tune isn't on Dermot Byrne's solo cd.

Does anybody know it by another name? Is it old? New?

# Posted on September 7th 2003 by GaryAMartin

I just learned a little something, though not as much as I'd hoped to. There's a hornpipe called Dermot Byrne's on an album of concertina music from Clare by Terry Bingham, on which Dermot Byrne and Cathy Custy's sister Mary are included. It's now fairly plausible that Cathy got it from Dermot, possibly via Mary or Terry. But did Dermot write it? If not, where did it come from?

# Posted on September 7th 2003 by GaryAMartin

Same as Brid Harper's (a.k.a. Denis Lanctot's, Grant Lamb's)

I just discovered that this tune (recorded as a hornpipe by Cathy Custy and Terry Bingham) is given as a reel attributed by Denis Lanctot to Grant Lamb, taken from the concert tape of Brid Harper and Dermot Byrne. The concertina players do it in G. Looks like everyone else has it in C. I've been playing it in D since my accordion doesn't have the high d' and I didn't know that it was a C tune.

http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/2556/

# Posted on September 17th 2005 by GaryAMartin

Oops. The "Dermot Byrne's Hornpipe" on Terry Bingham's CD isn't the same as the one on Cathy Custy's CD. The one on Custy's is the same as Brid Harper's/Denis Lanctot's/Grant Lamb's.

# Posted on September 17th 2005 by GaryAMartin