Key signature: Amixolydian
Submitted on May 21st 2001 by Jeremy.
This tune has been added to 370 tunebooks.
Also known as Dinkey Dorian's, Dinkey Dorrian's, Dinkie Dorian's, Dinkie Dorrian's, Dinkie's, Dinkies, Dinky's.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Dinkey's
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Amix
|:ed|c2B2 ABcd|egfg edBd|gBBB gBaB|gBBB gfed|
cdBc ABcd|egfg edBd|gfgd efed|c2B2 A2:|
|:eg|aAAA aAbA|aAAA agef|gBBB gBaB|gBBB gfeg|
aAAA aAbA|aAAA agef|gfgd efed|cdBc A2:|
The C and B at the very start of the tune can be turned into triplets, CDC BCB, but make sure the melody doesn't get buried underneath too many triplets.
If you're playing this on the fiddle, mandolin or any other instrument tuned GDAE, try playing the open E string at the same time as the C and B at the start and end of the first part.
Dinkey's was composed by the late Francie Dearg O Beirn of Kilcar, a modest man and outstanding fiddler, who apparently did not take credit for his tunes.
# Posted on June 1st 2001 by Jeremy
I've a tape of the piper Jerry O'Sullivan playing this in D, where it goes great on the pipes.
# Posted on September 23rd 2004 by Kevin Rietmann
Composed by Dinky Dorrian himself?
The sleeve notes from Altan's CD 'Horse with a Heart' (1989) say "Francie Byrne leanred the reel commonly known as Dinky's from Dinky Dorrian, a travelling musician". It's another one of those composed by or played by or named after situations. Whoever composed it, it's a first rate tune - and Dorrian is a great name for a musician too!
# Posted on August 29th 2005 by Edgar Bolton
A scottish smallpipe version
X:1
T:Dinky Dorian's
M:2/4
K:D
| {g}ed |: {g}cd{g}B{d}c {g}AB{g}cd | {g}eg{a}fd {g}e2 {A}ef | {a}gB{gBdBGB}B2 {a}gBaB| {a}gB{gBdBGB}B2 gf{g}ed |
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| {g}cd{g}B{d}c {g}AB{g}cd | {g}eg{a}fd {g}e2 {A}ef | g{a}g{f}gd {g}ef{g}ed| {g}cd{g}B{d}c [1 {g}A2 {g}ed :| [2 {g}A2 (3 {g}efg |
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|: aA {gAGAG}A2 aAgA |aA{gAGAG}A2 ag{a}ef | {a}gB{gBdBGB}B2 {a}gBaB| {a}gB{gBdBGB}B2 ag{a}eg |
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| [1 aA {gAGAG}A2 aAgA |aA{gAGAG}A2 ag{a}ef | g{a}g{f}gd {g}ef{g}ed| {g}cd{g}B{d}c {g}A2 (3{g}efg :|
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| [2 aA{gAGAG}A2 {a}gA{gAGAG}A2 | {g}fA {gAGAG}A2 {g}e4 | g{a}g{f}gd {g}ef{g}ed| {g}cd{g}B{d}c {g}A4 |
# Posted on May 3rd 2006 by patrickmclaurin
RTÉ Video
"The late great Donegal fiddler, Francie O'Byrne playing with his nephew Peter Carr on R.T.E...."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70IVDvDKfmg
# Posted on August 14th 2006 by Pere
Video
They're red hot on the bowed triplets, aren't they? I'm gonna practice until I can play them like that..... just as soon as I stop browsing internet forums!
# Posted on August 22nd 2006 by Jay-eye
Francie O'Byrne video
I think they're playing G#s instead of naturals - sounds awesome!
# Posted on October 2nd 2006 by patrick cavanagh
Great Vermont tenor banjo player
does anyone know a tenor banjo player from VT who plays Dinky's Reel? He and his wife,a fiddler, came to Cape Cod about 8 years ago and played it. I had to learn it after that... I just want to thank him for sharing such a great tune, he's in the Killington area.
# Posted on January 29th 2007 by jamfiddler
Little known fact:
The Dorian mode is named after Dinkie Dorian. It's true, because it's on teh internets.
# Posted on October 31st 2007 by patrick cavanagh
In the sleeve notes to a CD by the Cottars (http://www.thesession.org/recordings/display/2501), they claim that the tune is named "after Hughie 'Dinkie' Dorrian, a butcher/fiddler from Killybegs".
# Posted on December 2nd 2007 by sixholes
Theres a second ending to the b part, and this sure takes the roof off! I'll try post it soon as. Heard it many a time in Donegal, always a crowd pleaser, often followed by Boys of Malin.
# Posted on March 21st 2008 by Woodyboy
I learned a second ending to the b-part, maybe this is what you are talking about..
This is the B-part:
|:eg | aAAA aAbA | aAAA agef | gBBB gBaB | gBBB gfeg |
aAAA gAAA | fAAA e2ef | gfgd efed | cdBc A2:|
# Posted on June 23rd 2008 by synaesthete402