Key signature: Ddorian
Submitted on January 31st 2002 by Brad Maloney.
This tune has been added to 169 tunebooks.
Also known as Bobby Casey's, Casey's, The Custom Gap, The Mills Are Grinding, The Millstones Are Grinding, The Turtle, Tuttle's, The Windy Gap.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Tuttle's
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Ddor
A,DDE FEFG|A2Gc Ad~d2|A,DDE F2dB|cAGE FDEC|
A,DDE FEFG|A2Gc Ad~d2|fded dcAB|1 cAGE FDEC:|2 cAGE EDD2||
|:d2dB c2cG|AddB cAGA|d2dB cdcA|GEcE EDD2|
d2dB c2cG|Addc d2de|fded dcAB|1 cAGE EDD2:|2 cAGE FDEC||
I always associated this tune with Cape Breton, I don't know why. At one of the local sessions this is paired with Master Crowley's (DDor), Julia Delaney's, Tuttle's. I've heard this is AKA as "Mills are Grinding". Anyone able to shed light on this tune??
# Posted on January 31st 2002 by Brad Maloney
Origin
I have checked the Fiddler's Companion and this is listed as an Irish Slow Reel. They also list the alternate names that I have posted, one of which you already mentioned. Its on Kevin Burke's "Up Close".
Great tune
Cheers
Donough
# Posted on January 31st 2002 by Donough
The Custom Gap
Brad, I learned this as The Custom Gap (one of the names Donough posted) off an early Chieftains recording. From my perforated memory, either they paired it with My Love is in America (a close cousin of this melody), or the liner notes simply mis-identified it as such. It was Sean Keane solo, on fiddle rollicking through the Custom Gap.
Great post, Brad.
# Posted on January 31st 2002 by Miss Lonelyhearts
Mistake in recordings
The reel is on the first Na Connerys CD not the second one. On the good CD, the reel is named "Casey's".
# Posted on March 7th 2004 by Washoo
My love is in america
this reel can be heard on "Within a Mile Of Dublin" (Paul O'Saughnessy & Paul McGrattan) where it is named "My Love Is In america".
# Posted on March 19th 2004 by Washoo
Also called the Windy Gap. I learned this one from an old 78 of Sligoman Paddy Sweeney, where it was called the "Custom Jap" for some reason - pre WWII tensions? Sweeney's medley was The Concert Reel/Custom Jap, which John Vesey recreates on his record.
# Posted on October 14th 2004 by Kevin Rietmann
Tuttle's = The Windy Gap
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/1046
# Posted on October 14th 2004 by gian marco
Yeah, Paul O'Shaughnessy recorded this as the Donegal version of "My Love Is in America."
# Posted on December 23rd 2005 by slainte
Bobby Casey originally recorded (and possibly composed) this tune, named after his friend, fiddleplayer John Joe Tuttle
# Posted on January 24th 2006 by <>-_-_-<>
Tuttle's = The Windy Gap
I learned this years ago from the Roche Collection (1912) where it is called the "Custom Gap."
# Posted on May 3rd 2006 by dwdeacon
John Joe Tuttle
I met John Joe Tuttle in Miltown about ten years ago. He told me that Bobby Casey did indeed get the tune from him, but that he himself had learned it via the Paddy Sweeney 78. Since Sweeney's setting and name (despite the typo on the label) were the same as that in the Roche Collection, I'd bet Sweeney got it from the book. O'Neill's setting (one of his "Mills Are Grinding" tunes) is in a piper's version in an A mode rather then D.
# Posted on July 28th 2006 by blarneystar
Lunasa just played "Tuttles" at Girvan
As per the set from Redwood. Yes indeed Kevin Crawford said it was named after John Joe Tuttle whose nickname was "Nige" - apparently because John Joe's style was like that of the classical violinist Nigel Kennedy - I couldn't figure out how much of this was true or how much a joke - it got a big laugh though
# Posted on May 7th 2008 by Edgar Bolton
I can see the joke of suggesting John Joe sounds like Kennedy trying to play Irish music
, at times he can be hard to follow
# Posted on May 8th 2008 by <>-_-_-<>
I learned this from Bobby Casey when I played gigs and sessions with him in London in the 1970s
# Posted on July 8th 2009 by tonysully