Key signature: Cmajor
Submitted on September 1st 2004 by ceolachan.
This tune has been added to 12 tunebooks.
Also known as The Flat Fiddle, Jimmy Troy's Folly.
X: 1
T: Tyred Fiddle, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: hornpipe
K: Cmaj
|: (3G^F=F |
E>cG>c E>cG>c | F>cA>c F>cA>c | B>cd>e (3fed B>d | c>ed>c (3BcB (3G^F=F |
EcGc EcGc | FcAc FcAc | Bcde (3fed B>d |1 c2 G2 C2 :|2 c2 G2 C>g ||
|: ^f=f |
e>cB>c G>cB>c | A>FE>F D2 d>c | B>G^F>G A>GE>G | (3ced (3cBA G2 (3g^f>=f |
e>cB>c G>cB>c | A>FE>F D2 d>c | B>G^F>G A>GE>G |1 c2 e2 c>g :|2 c2 G2 C2 ||
It's that quartertone again - between g and ^f or G and ^F - - - for all ^fs and ^Fs
There's a reason for those 'Fs'...
I will leave Jimmy Troy to tell you the story of his folly and the 'Tyred Fiddle', if he so braves it...
# Posted on September 1st 2004 by ceolachan
Come Out, Come Out Wherever You are James Troy and Confess you Sin
I only hope the title of this piece is obvious enough. I'd hate to have you confess something else in what is probably a great respository of transgressions and misdemeanours. I hope there's not anything too ugly hidden in those shadows...
Now for my SIN. I sometimes play those short groups with the ^f/^Fs as an exaggerated, even painful rallentando, or even dropping down to that low C and treating that as if it were a fermata. Now talk about irritating - but hey, in a sense it is a joyful funerary piece...
# Posted on September 1st 2004 by ceolachan
Troy's gone and knocked the 'F' out of it - - -
He's backed it up to the key of 'D' so he could play it on his flute... I hope he's planning on sharing that with you all. I can't figure out what stopped him doing it in this key, all he'd need to do is avoid that low 'C'...
# Posted on September 1st 2004 by ceolachan
For Jamie and all ye pipe blowers who need to nimble up your fingers - - -
Alright, here's an alternate ending without changing the key but avoiding that low 'C':
- - - |c2 (3e^de c2:|
Now that is the finger that needs the most exercise. A bit of anatomy, the tendon for that finger is shorter than the others. Haven't you noticed how damned hard it is to wiggle it independent of the others?
# Posted on September 1st 2004 by ceolachan
"ceolachan" - you're talking to yourself again...........
# Posted on September 2nd 2004 by Kenny
Yeah, and looking at that damned finger...
# Posted on September 2nd 2004 by ceolachan
SLAP - SLAP - SLAP
# Posted on September 2nd 2004 by ceolachan
- - - R.I.P. - - - or R.I.S. - 'Rest in Silence'
In case it isn't obvious, and I don't see James making a contribution, I'll give a bit of the tale. James put his fiddle case down, an instrument inside, and then started up the car and backed over it... I'm still hoping he'll put it in his own words. Suffice it to say, such a loss is a grave sin in my books...
So, I would add a bit of clumsy pizzicato here and there and especially for the end, and on that suggested fermata, a bit of harsh bow work and wonkiness, and maybe some Balkan harmonic work...
# Posted on September 2nd 2004 by ceolachan
Huh? - Richard Greene was Robin Hood...
# Posted on September 4th 2004 by ceolachan
Patrick Knowles played the merry Will...
# Posted on September 4th 2004 by ceolachan
K: Dmaj
|: (3A^G=G |
F>dA>d F>dA>d | G>dB>d G>dB>d | c>de>f (3gfe c>e | d>fe<d (3cdc (3A^G=G |
FdAd FdAd | GdBd GdBd | cdef (3gfe c>e |1 d2 A2 D2 :|2 d2 A2 D>a ||
|: ^g=g |
f>dc>d A>dc>d | B>GF>G E2 e>d | c>A^G>A B>AF>A | (3dfe (3dcB A>a^g>=g |
f>dc>d A>dc>d | B>GF>G E2 e>d | c>A^G>A B>AF>A |1 d2 f2 d>a :| d2 A2 D2 ||
# Posted on June 9th 2005 by ceolachan
"Jimmy Troy" ~ M.I.A.
For those of you who find your way here, Jim was here too and had commented... When he was removed from this site all his comments went with him and little remains. This tune was written in his honour, even if there is humour over a dire occurance. I miss his presence here and I count him amongst our friends, someone to care for, someone we miss...
# Posted on February 22nd 2006 by ceolachan
Thinking about you Jimmy ~ options for the B-part
K: C Major
P: B
|: (3g^f=f | e>cB>c G2 (3cB^A | ~
K: D Major
P: B
|: (3a^g=g | f>dc>d A2 (3dc=c | ~
# Posted on December 4th 2007 by ceolachan
If any of you find confusion above, it is because some people, like Jimmy, are gone, and everything they'd said or contributed here on site went with them. So, some of the dialogue is no more, the filler between some of my comments is now gone, maybe half a dozen lines...
# Posted on December 4th 2007 by ceolachan