The Manchester

reel

Key signature: Emixolydian

Submitted on January 3rd 2005 by Dow.

This tune has been added to 13 tunebooks.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

• Another Measure: Scottish Country Dance Music From The 1950's, Volume 2 by Adam Rennie And His Scottish Country Dance Quartet
• Farewell To Ireland CD 1 (of A Box Set Of 4) by Various Artists
• Fluters Of Old Erin: Flute, Piccolo And Whistle Recordings Of The 1920's And 30's by Various Artists
• From Galway To Dublin: Early Recordings Of Traditional Irish Music by Various Artists
• Rig-a-jig-jig: Dance Music Of The South Of England by Various Artists

X: 1
T: Manchester, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Emix
Beed cABG|AF~F2 DEFA|Beed cdBG|1 AFdF E2FA:|2 AFdF E3f||
eB~B2 egbg|fd~d2 fggf|eB~B2 egbg|fedf e3f|
eB~B2 egbg|fddc dfaf|eBBA GBdc|BGAF DEFA||

The Manchester Reel

This is a reel I started playing about a year ago after coming across a transcription of it on the net whilst looking for tunes in my favourite key. I recently revisited the tune and discovered that my version has changed considerably over time and become smoothed out and more Irish-sounding. I reckoned it was time I posted it so that other people can have some fun with it. It's a nice simple tune don't you think?

# Posted on January 3rd 2005 by Dow

Apparently it's an American tune by someone called Zeke Backus, so I assume that the title refers to the Manchester in New Hampshire.

# Posted on January 3rd 2005 by Dow

Manchester Reel in Bmin

Its a nice tune, too when all the Gsharp are played as G, with the exception of the second bar in the second part where a F# sliding into a long G# (3/8) can help to keep whistler happy to stay with almost no strange fingerings.
Character goes then to Bmin slightly B dorian ???

# Posted on January 6th 2005 by swisspiper

Nice tune. Maybe I'm all wet, but when I read through it imagining G naturals instead of G sharps, it reminded me a lot of "Ships are Sailing".

# Posted on January 7th 2005 by ceciltguitar