Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on December 8th 2003 by jdicarlo.
This tune has been added to 10 tunebooks.
Also known as Finbar Dwyer's.
X: 1
T: Gan Ainm
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: hornpipe
K: Gmaj
|:F | GB~B2 AGEG | DEGe dBAB | GD~D2 B,DGA | BGAB G3A |
BGBd gdBd | c2BG AGEF | GEDB, G,DBe | dBAB G3 :|
|:^c | dB~B2 GB~B2 | dBcB AGFA | DEFG ABcA | dec2 AGFA |
G2BG DCB,D | GBdB cBAc | B/2c/2dgd BGDB | cedc BGA :|
A Paddy O'Brien Tune?
I found this tune on a session recording I made in Drumshanbo in '97. Even with the low notes it sound great on the whistle. I'm just guessing that it's a Paddy O'Brien tune as there were many flying by that week. Does anyone out there have hard info on this tune?
# Posted on December 8th 2003 by jdicarlo
No Name
Note: "gan ainm" means "no name" in the Irish language.
# Posted on April 25th 2004 by garym
As far as I can tell this is not a Paddy O'Brien tune. It isn't amongst the hornpipes in his collection -
"The Compositions of Paddy O'Brien"
Nor is it one I have ever come across, realizing the limits of that statement. Paddy's hornpipes, on the whole, like tend to mostly rise in the opening bar of the B-part.
# Posted on June 5th 2005 by ceolachan
Well, for starters it's a reel, not a hornpipe.
# Posted on September 14th 2005 by continuo
Sounds like a home-cooked tune to me. There's no repetition in the tune and the themes don't match up. Could be wrong tho'.
# Posted on May 9th 2007 by Dow
A Finbar Dwyer tune
I recently heard this tune in a session in Vermont. The guy played it as a reel and said it was a composition of Finbar Dwyer. I still like it as a hornpipe . . .
# Posted on March 20th 2008 by jdicarlo