The Auld Wheel

reel

Key signature: Amajor

Submitted on July 14th 2005 by dafydd.

This tune has been added to 24 tunebooks.

Also known as Flood On The Holm, The Flood On The Holm.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

• Drops Of Spring Water by Comhaltas Concert Tour 2004
• Eleven by Troy MacGillivray
• Fiddle Volume II by Cape Breton Symphony
• Legacy Of The Scottish Fiddle Vol. 1 by Alasdair Fraser And Paul Machlis
• Mac Morin by Mac Morin
• Runaway Sunday by Altan
• The Big Day In by Simon Thoumire And David Milligan
• The Celebrated Recordings by John Doherty
• The Strathspey King by James Scott Skinner
• The Surprise by Pauline Cato And Tom McConville
• Traditional Fiddle Music Of Cape Breton Volume 4 Mackinnon's Brook by Various Artists
• Traditional Irish Music Played On The Uilleann Pipes by Robbie Hannan

X: 1
T: Auld Wheel, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Amaj
|(3ddd A=G F=GAd|(3BBB edcAAc|
(3ddd A=G F=GAd|cdec dD (3DDD|
(3ddd A=G F=GAd|(3BBB ed cAAc|
(3ddd AF GAB=g|fedc dDD=g||
fDFA dfaf|eEGB ef=ge|
fDFA dfaf|(3eee =gefdda|
fDFA dfaf|eE=GB ef=ga|
ba=gf edcB|A=GFE D2 (3ABc||

Thanks for this lovely Scott Skinner tune. It's actually in D major though.

# Posted on July 14th 2005 by slainte

You're quite right.Temporary amnesia,it's in D major.Sorry.

# Posted on July 14th 2005 by dafydd

The Auld Wheel

The first half of this tune is recycled in "The Flood in the Holm": http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/1041

# Posted on July 18th 2005 by slainte

I've fixed the ABC

# Posted on July 21st 2005 by dafydd

Why didn't you just leave the abc as it was and change the key signature instead?

# Posted on July 21st 2005 by Dow

The link slainte gave above is now broken. A friend rescued that transcription and e-mailed it to me. As slainte says, the 3rd part of John Doherty's medley "The Flood on the Holm" is the 1st part of Skinner's "The Auld Wheel".

X: 1
T: The Flood On The Holm
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Dmaj
AG|:FD (3DDD FGAd | cdAd BE (3EEE| FD (3DDD FGAd | cdAG FD (3DDD :|
fdcd ABcd |efgf eEEg| fdcd ABcA | GAEF Ddde |
fdcd ABcd | efgf eE (3EEE | DFEG FAGB | AFGE FDFA ||
d2AG FDFA | Beed cABc | d2AG FGAg | fdec dfec |
d2AG FADA | Beed cABc | dcdA BGBd | AFGE FDD2 ||
fgaf dAFA | GBed cAA2| fgaf dAFA | GBEc dDD2|
fgaf dAFA | GBed cAA2| dfeg fagb |afge fdec ||
d2AG FDA,D | B,DA,D CEAc | d2AF GBed | ceag fdd2 |
d2AG FDA,D | B,DA,D CEAc | dcdA BGBd | AFGE D2 ||

# Posted on May 29th 2008 by Dow

Find the other two tunes in the medley here:

1) The Spinning Wheel http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/8570
3) The Bride's Reel http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/8573

# Posted on May 29th 2008 by Dow

Hear a clip of the composer himself playing the tune http://www.abdn.ac.uk/scottskinner/audio.php

# Posted on May 30th 2008 by Dow