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Where Is The Cat?

slide

Key signature: Dmajor

Submitted on August 29th 2003 by dafydd.

This tune has been added to 39 tunebooks.

Also known as Hush The Cat, Wallop The Cat, The Kitchen With No Food, Tadeen The Fiddler, Tadeen The Fiddler's, Taidhgin An Asail's, Wallop The Cat From Under The Table, Wallop The Cat That's Merry And Fat, Where Is The Cat, Where's The Cat, Where's The Cat?.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

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X: 1
T: Where Is The Cat?
M: 12/8
L: 1/8
R: slide
K: Dmaj
|:EFE A2E F2E A3|EFE A2c BcA F2E|
EFE A2E F2E A3|cec d2c BcA F2E:|
|:cBc e2c BAF d3|cBc e2c BcA F2E|
cBc e2c BAF d3|faf e2c BcA F2E:|

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Where Is The Cat? sheetmusic
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Where Is The Cat?

From Tony Sullivan's collection,"Sully's Irish Music Book".

# Posted on March 1st 2003 by dafydd

'Wallop the Cat, he's fine and fat, wallop the cat from under the table" was the first line of a song to this air.

# Posted on March 27th 2004 by blarneystar

Thanks to Dow for "fixing" the link to Taidhgin An Asail's on the recording "Along Blackwater's Banks".

# Posted on March 17th 2007 by Tish

"Wallop The Cat From Under The Table" ~ a rescued duplication

Key signature: G Major
Submitted on December 25th 2007 by hetty.
~ /tunes/display/8076

X: 2
T: Wallop The Cat From Under The Table
T: Where is the Cat?
M: 12/8
L: 1/8
R: slide
K: G Major
|: DED G2 D E2 D G2 D | DED G2 B A2 G E2 D |
DED G2 D E2 D G2 A | BdB c2 B A2 G E2 D :|
|: B3 d2 B AGE c3 | BAB d2 B A2 G E2 D |
B3 d2 B AGE c3 | ege d2 B A2 G E2 D :|

I found this tune after following the link to U-tube given in the discussion topic "tune name". It was the third in a set of 3 slides by an 'Irish fiddle duet' following after "Dennis Murphy's" & "The Lonesome Road to Dingle"...

An identification of the fiddle players would also be nice.

(Hetty, I couldn't find the discussion or the U-Tube or I'd have added the link here. I'll leave that to you... ~ 'c')

# Posted on December 25th 2007 by hetty

# Posted on December 25th 2007 by ceolachan

Follow the links

1) go to discussion topic "tune name" Dec.22nd by 'garyfitz123'
2) follow the youtube link,
3) click on "Comas nel Ca Beleno"
4) click on Fred Finn & Peter Horan
5) then Irish Fiddle Duet and you should have the three slides mentioned.

# Posted on December 26th 2007 by hetty

http://www.thesession.org/discussions/display/16169

# Posted on December 26th 2007 by hetty

No wonder I couldn't find it, not exactly by 'direct means', eh? :-/

# Posted on December 26th 2007 by ceolachan

“110 Ireland's Best Polkas & Slides”

Waltons Publishing, 1999
ISBN: 1-85720-086-1

Page 47, tune #109: "Where is the Cat?" (###, A Major)

# Posted on December 26th 2007 by ceolachan

The original transcription given courtesy of dafydd is identical, note-for-note, to the transcription found in the previous publication...

# Posted on December 26th 2007 by ceolachan

5) then Irish Fiddle Duet ~ a more direct means :-/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeN4Vkj_Q9E

# Posted on December 26th 2007 by ceolachan

L: Matt Cranitch & R: Seamus Creagh

Comments & Responses:

"The guy on the left is Matt Cranitch....playing with Seamus Creagh on the right." ~ gwhastings

Your question's answer was just a scroll away... ;-)

# Posted on December 26th 2007 by ceolachan

Seamus now makes his home in Newfoundland, but both are fine fiddlers and particularly good with slides... Cranitch even did a degree dealing with Sliabh Luachra fiddle traditions and styles... I think he focused on O'Keeffe, and I'd love to have that thesis to pour over... ;-)

# Posted on December 26th 2007 by ceolachan

"Wallop The Cat From Under The Table" ~ G take 2

X: 3
T: Wallop The Cat From Under The Table
T: Where is the Cat?
M: 12/8
L: 1/8
R: slide
K: G Major
|: DED G2 D E2 D G3 | DED G2 B ABG E2 D |
DED G2 D E2 D G3 | BdB c2 B AB/A/G E2 D :|
|: B^AB d2 B =AGE c3 | B^AB d2 B =ABG E2 D |
B^AB d2 B =AGE c3 | e/f/ge d2 B ABG E2 D :|

# Posted on December 28th 2007 by ceolachan

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