Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on June 11th 2004 by slainte.
This tune has been added to 27 tunebooks.
Also known as Killanan's Fancy, Killanin's Fancy, Turnpike Gate.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Turnpike Gate, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Gmaj
BA|GEDE G3B|ADED ADED|GEDE G2Bd|1 eBdB A2:|2 eBdB G2||
Bd|gfgb agab|gabg agef|gfgb agab|gedB A2Bd|
gfgb agab|gabg agfg|e3d edBd|gedB A2||
Does anyone know this tune?
I learned this old-fashioned, nameless tune several months ago here in Yorkshire. My flute/whistle tutor also gave me another nameless tune to play after it (http://thesession.org/tunes/display.php/1498/comments#comment76768) but he doesn't recall where he got them.
It sounds nice and is fun to play on flute, but I guess this tune originally comes from the repertoire of box/melodeon players. Yeah, it would sound best on melodeon.
# Posted on June 11th 2004 by slainte
I forgot to note I learned this tune to practice G roles, especially in the second part.
# Posted on June 12th 2004 by slainte
Your choice of name
This is on Cathal Hayden's recording "Handed Down", and contributer "zed" was asking about it recently. Hayden calls it "The Killavell Fancy", but "zed" thinks - and I agree - that that is the name of the 2nd tune. It is on an LP by Roger Sherlock as "Killanan's Fancy", which is quite close to "Killavell". I'm sure "Stockton's Wing", and possibly the Kilfenora Ceili Band recorded it as "Austin Tierney's", although he does have another reel named after him. Because there are already "Austin Tierney's" and a "Killavil Fancy" in the tune list, I'll tentatively title it "Killanan's Fancy", and go with Roger.
# Posted on June 12th 2004 by Kenny
It's listed elsewhere as "The Turnpike Gate" and "The Moving Bogs" if that helps you with recordings, but again there are otehr reels that go by those names.
# Posted on June 12th 2004 by Dow
"Turnpike Gate"
Good man, Dow - I'd forgotten about that title.I think "Bulmer & Sharpley" have it as that. I should have said before that this tune has also been recorded by Frankie Gavin & Alec Finn, who also followed it with the "Killavil Fancy".
# Posted on June 12th 2004 by Kenny
Thanks, Kenny and Dow. Now, I list the tune as "The Turnpike Gate." Yes, this version is very similar to Norbeck's transcription of the tune.
# Posted on June 13th 2004 by slainte
Not roger's doing!
When "Memories of Sligo" was first released, an acquaintance of the owner of the Inchecronin label told me that Roger Sherlock had no hand in listing the titles of the tracks. Instead, she claimed that the owner of the Inchecronin label (his name escapes me and my lps are in storage) did it from memory, leading to several mistakes, including the "Killanin's Fancy" error, which has since been repeated by several recording artists!
# Posted on June 24th 2004 by zorg
Coincidence?
Interesting, zorg. By coincidence, I posted the Roger Sherlock LP yesterday, and I did change some of the titles.
# Posted on June 24th 2004 by Kenny
Watch and listen to Pat O'Connor and Claire Keville play this tune: http://www.custysmusic.com/mall/CustysTraditionalMusicShop/brogans.htm
# Posted on August 26th 2006 by slainte
The Turnpike Gate
I picked this one up from my local session. It hardly takes any effort to learn if you already know the Galway Rambler, which has a very similar B-part. This is the setting I got from my local session. It's different in the 2nd to last bar:
X: 1
T: The Turnpike Gate
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Gmaj
GEDE ~G3B|AD (3FED AD (3FED|GEDE GABd|1 eBdB A2BA:|2 eBdB G2Bd||
~g3b ~a3b|gabg agef|~g3b ~a3b|gedB A2Bd|
~g3b ~a3b|gabg aged|Beed edBd|gedB A2BA||
# Posted on April 29th 2007 by Dow
The Turnpike Gate: the 2nd part
During my very short stay in Dublin last week, I had the great pleasure to meet Catherine McEvoy and friends. They had the second part of the tune somewhat different, and this is what I reconstructed from my memory:
~g3b agab|gabg agef|~g3b agab|gabg ~a3z|
~g3b agab|gabg agfd|~e3d edBd|gedB A2BA||
The Killavil Fancy came after the tune as expected.
# Posted on May 31st 2008 by slainte