Phil Cunningham's

reel

Key signature: Amajor

Submitted on March 12th 2005 by Johannes J.

This tune has been added to 35 tunebooks.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

• Another Musical Interlude by Aly Bain And Phil Cunningham
• Celtic Connections - The Album by Various Artists
• Dance Music Of Ireland: Volume 9 by Matt Cunningham
• Down The Ivory Stairs by Padraic O'Reilly
• Far Off Fields by Taxi Mauve
• House Sessions by Brenda Stubbert
• Lonely Bird by Aly Bain
• Skin And Bow by Declan Folan And Junior Davey

X: 1
T: Phil Cunningham's
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Amaj
|:A,2 CE A2 cA|BAGB Acea|fedc dcBA|c2 B2 B2 c2|
A,2 CE A2 cA|BAGB Acea|fedc dcBA|1 E2 A2 A2 CB,:|2 E2 A2 A2 (cd)||
|:eAce aAce|f2 d2 d2 (Bc)|dBdf bBdf|g2 e2 e2 (cd)|
eAce fAdf|gBeg a2 (gf)|eagf ecdB|1 c2 A2 A2 (cd):|2 c2 A2 A4||

Popular Aly Bain tune

This tune is known as Phil Cunningham's reel and is the actual title as Aly composed it for his friend and musical partner. So, it does not mean "Learned from the playing" of Phil Cunningham as is the usual practice with unamed tunes.
You'll hear this tune a lot in Scottish sessions and it also gets played by Cape Breton fiddlers.

# Posted on March 12th 2005 by Johannes J

Reel?

sounds more like a hornpipe to me

# Posted on June 20th 2005 by *Davy Rogers

It'd make a great rant.

# Posted on June 21st 2005 by Dow

Phil Cunningham's Reel

The scottish reel/hornpipe thing is being discussed in the comments for http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/7872

# Posted on October 18th 2007 by spindizzy