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Gardybylatten

hornpipe

Key signature: Dmajor

Submitted on August 29th 2003 by dafydd.

This tune has been added to 15 tunebooks.

Also known as Bubbling Over, Gardebylaten, Gardebylatten, Gärdeby Låten, Gärdebylåten, G�rdebylaten.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

Braes Of Lochiel by Billy Ross And John Martin
Obadeea by Hom Bru

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X: 1
T: Gardybylatten
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: hornpipe
K: Dmaj
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|B2gf e2d2|c3d c2B2|A2g2 f2e2|1dcde f
efg|a2a2 a2:|2d2fd cdec||d2f2 d2fg
|:a4 fdfa|b2a2 g2f2|g3f e2f2|g2f2
e2d2|c3d c2B2|A2g2 f2e2|1dcde fefg
|a2a2a2fg:|2d2fd cdec|d2f2 d2||

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Gardybylatten

A Swedish ganglat ,popular in the Sheland Islands .

# Posted on March 1st 2003 by dafydd

I love this tune but do the Swedes?

I've actually always loved this tune but, when you talk to Swedish musicians, it's like their version of whatever your most hated warhorse is. Oh by the way, it's also popular in the SheTland Islands and Scotland. :-)

John

# Posted on May 4th 2004 by Johannes J

Gardybylatten

I like this tune,but the Swedes hate it.It's their equivalent of The Irish washerwoman.

# Posted on March 1st 2003 by dafydd

Garden Pilot

as it's know in my band is played all over the continent with more or more often less understanding of the music!

# Posted on May 5th 2004 by swisspiper

Yes - I like to annoy Swedes with it whenever I the chance.

# Posted on May 8th 2004 by ragaman

...whenever I *get* the chance.

I once played a gig at a Swedish private party in London, and I got all the band to learn this tune. We slipped it in between the jigs and reels and nobody batted an eyelid. Either they couldn't tell it apart from the Irish tunes, or they were too embarrassed to even acknowledge it. I like it, anyway.

Its name is actually 'Gardebylaten', with two dots over the first 'a' and a little circle over the second, and means 'The Gardeby Tune.' The pronunciation is, very approximately:
yairr'-the-bew-law,-ten

# Posted on May 8th 2004 by ragaman

Marching through Spring Fests and Weddings - - -

Yeah, that too. We've been marching in the Spring sun with this in a set of 'marches' to open an annual 'SpringFest', as well as playing it in the pissin' rain for a wedding march. And, we still like 'The Irish Washerwoman' and 'Soldier's Joy' - go figure...

# Posted on August 15th 2004 by ceolachan

Alternative version of Gärdebylåten

There are surely as many versions of this tune as there are fiddlers in Sweden - but this is how I play it on the tin whistle!
It is perhaps not "comme il faut" to like Gardebylaten among the highbrows - but I do! It´s a classic! Don´t play it to fast and try to get a "swingy" feeling!

# Posted on February 13th 2007 by Falkbeer

I don't care how much the Swedes hate it; this is a lovely tune and has long been a favorite of mine. In the recordings I've heard (discography not to hand, alas), the A and B parts are repeated twice, so the approximate sequence is A1A2A1A2 B1B2B1B2, with slight adjustments to the connections between the parts as needed, which gives it the same rhythmic structure as a slow 32-bar reel.

There is lots of opportunity for rich double-stopping. Stick to the obvious three-chord harmony if you play this in session, because the Swedish tradition has a traditional second-fiddle part, and somebody in the crowd is likely to know it.

The Swedish name for this kind of tune is Ganglat (with a ring over the second a), pronounced GAHNG-lawt, and it means a walking tune. Its native pace is a stately walk, though in session everyone is going to want to play it faster: try to let it breathe.

Gardeby is a village in Dalarna, a "county" at the heart of the Swedish fiddle tradition.

# Posted on December 22nd 2007 by ACW

~ the Swedes hate it??? ~ ~ Bangers & Mash!!! ~

I've been in the company of some accomplished Swedish musicians and dancers and none of them expressed anything akin to 'hate'... They all had an affection for it. Like comfort food, this is 'bangers and mash'... But hey, some folks don't like mash...

# Posted on December 22nd 2007 by ceolachan

Another name

Heard this played by a young Scots fiddle group... it was introduced as "A Swedish tune whose name I can't pronounce but it means 'bubbling over'" No idea if that's the true translation, but the name seems apt.

# Posted on April 16th 2008 by fliedermaus

There is a tune in G that often goes after this - among Shetlanders at least. Don't know what it's called and have only picke dup a bit of it so far.
I'm told that there was a Faroese group visiting in the early 80s that really made this popular in Shetland - don't know if that's true

# Posted on June 3rd 2008 by Bren

Faroese group

"Spaellemininir Y Hoydlum" - [ or something similar].

# Posted on June 3rd 2008 by Kenny

This lot?
http://www.framtak.com/fo_music/spaelimen.html
http://www.spaelimenninir.com/

# Posted on June 3rd 2008 by Bren

Gardebylatten

The pairing we have with this is Appelbylaten - (spelling ?) which is in G and another Swedish walking tune. I'm pretty sure that it's not on here, but you'll find it on JC's tune finder (at http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/cgi/abc/tunefind) as
Äppelbo gånglåt

# Posted on June 3rd 2008 by spindizzy

Thanks spindizzy, that's it

# Posted on June 3rd 2008 by Bren