Key signature: Bminor
Submitted on October 22nd 2004 by Gard.
This tune has been added to 21 tunebooks.
X: 1
T: Inverness Fiddler, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: strathspey
K: Bmin
|: B2 (B>c) (d>e) (f>g)|(af) (ed) (c>B) A>c|B2 (B>c) (d>e) (f>g)|(af) (e>c) B2 f2 :|
|: B2 (B>c) d>e f>d|(c>B)(A>B) (c>d) (e>c)|B2 (B>c) (d>e) (f>g)|(af) (e>c) B2 f2 :|
The Inverness Fiddler
It sounds like "The Ale is Dear." Where does it come from?
# Posted on October 25th 2004 by slainte
Please please don't be one of those people who submits tunes without comments. It's really impersonal I think. The point of this site is personal attachment to the tunes rather than just dots on a screen. Why don't you tell us who gave you the tune, maybe how you like to play it or ornament it etc, anything.
# Posted on October 25th 2004 by Dow
It could be about a fiddler from Inverness, Scotland or Inverness, Cape Breton. There's actually a few towns called Inverness in Canada and the States but only one of me from Inverness, Scotland.
# Posted on October 25th 2004 by Johannes J
Hear, hear.....
I'd like to agree with and support "Dow's" comments above - please give us information about the tune you submit, there's always more to it than just the "dots". Every tune has to be learned from a source, be it another musician, a recording or even a book, unless it's your own composition, in which case there's no excuse. This is a plea to ALL contributers.
# Posted on October 25th 2004 by Kenny
I know that there's a tune by the late Bert Murray "The Inverness Fiddlers" which I think is a reel. I'll try to find out and let you know.
# Posted on October 25th 2004 by Johannes J
Pipe major George S McLean
I've checked ABC Tunefinder and this tune appears to have been composed by Pipe Major George S McLean.
There is a Bert Murray tune too which I'll try to find.
# Posted on October 25th 2004 by Johannes J
Sorry Kenny
The name is George S McLennan. I did know but I typed in the wrong name by mistake. Kenny, you would know the name was Pipe Major George S McLennan, I'm sure.
# Posted on October 25th 2004 by Johannes J
You learn something every day
No apology required john, I hadn't heard of this one. "GS" was a fairly prolific composer.But I wish the person who posted it would tell us whom or where he/she got it from.
# Posted on October 25th 2004 by Kenny
It comes from Inverness, in Scotland, since I got the sheet music first of Inverness Fiddlers.
# Posted on October 26th 2004 by Gard
He, thanks!
# Posted on October 26th 2004 by Gard