Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on September 26th 2004 by jakki S.
This tune has been added to 10 tunebooks.
Also known as Lambskinnet, Lanquenet, Lansquenet.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Lamb Skinnet
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Gmaj
|:GBd dBG|c2e e2g|GBd dBG|F2A A2B|
GBd dBG|c2e efg|fed ed^c|1ded =cBA:|2d3 def||
|:gdB gdB|c2e e2g|dBG dBG|F2A ABc|
dBG dBG|c2e efg|dBG cAF|1G3 def:|2G3 z3||
Lamb Skinnet
I think this jig is Northumbrian. Maybe, Dow, you could confirm this for me. It's a jig I used to play with the band I played with in Newcastle. It does rely a little heavily on broken chords - so some of you may find it a little daggy, but it brings back a few memories nonetheless.
# Posted on September 26th 2004 by jakki S
Yes I'm pretty sure it's Northumbrian.
# Posted on September 27th 2004 by Dow
It's very familiar and I learned in about 30 seconds. Maybe, I already knew it, of course.
Daggy, undoubtably but "a dag in the hand is worth two in the bush".
# Posted on September 27th 2004 by Johannes J
It certainly is.
# Posted on September 27th 2004 by jakki S
daggy
# Posted on September 30th 2004 by snowyowl
Lamb Skinnet
It is most certainly Northumbrian and dates to the early part of the 19th century if not before.
It sounds pants if you play it as an Irish Jig or and English Jig but if you get the Northumbrian drive right it really motors. Angels of the North play it loads with Seven Stars and Oyster Girl for an old dance called Duck for the Oyster. Another hangover from a couple ofcenturiesago that is stillvery worth doing.
# Posted on October 3rd 2004 by noelbats
A dance
It's a scottish dance and the title is a corruption of the name of a German card game. I'll look it up and post it later.
# Posted on October 6th 2004 by Alancorsini
Scotland, keys, origins, etc.
I'm 99.97% sure that it's a Scottish jig used for a Scottish Country Dance of the same name. I'm also 99.97% sure that it's meant to be in A, not G.
Where does the name come from though?
I've heard it may be from the practice of putting the sheep of a dead lamb (from Mother A) on another lamb (from mother B) so that Mother A will think that the other lamb belongs to her (because he's wearing the skin that smells like it). It may be wrong though--comments?
# Posted on August 6th 2007 by cowsrhot
Lamb Skinnet
"It is suggested that the name alludes to the practice of tying the skin of a dead lamb to a live one in order to have it accepted by the bereaved ewe as a replacement."
-Scotland Through Her Country Dances, George S Emmerson, London 1967
In Scotland this is almost invariably played in the key of A. According to the Scottish Country Dance Society in 1947, the dance comes from "Thompson, 1751" but whether the tune is tied to the dance I couldn't say. The tune doesn't seem to appear in any of the great Scottish fiddle collections.
# Posted on August 7th 2007 by nigelg
This appears in Thompson's Compleat Collection of Country Dances c.1770, as Lanquenet, or Lansquenet.
# Posted on July 27th 2008 by fynnjamin
in key of A
# Posted on July 27th 2008 by fynnjamin