Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on March 23rd 2002 by Will CPT.
This tune has been added to 47 tunebooks.
Also known as Ironing Board, The Ironing Board, Larry Bedican's, Larry Redican's, Paddy Fahey's (reel), Rattigan's, Redican's.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Galway, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Gmaj
B|:AGEG DG,B,D|BAGA BedB|AGED B,DA,D|
|B,~A,3 B,EED|E2 DE GEDB,|D2 CE DG,B,D|
|~E3G DEGA|1 BdAB G3 B:|2 BdAB G2 Bc||
|:d~G3 EGDC|B,G,B,D GBdf|e~c3 AcGE|
|DFAd fedc|BG(3GGG EGDC|B,G,B,D GBdf|
|e~c3 efge|1 dBAB G2 Bc:|2 dBAB G3 B||
The Galway Reel
Judging from the way the discussion thread on the Galway Reel has gone, I'm hoping this is the sought after tune. I think I pulled it off a Liz Carroll recording. It's a different tune from the Galway Reel listed in Krassen's O'Neill's.
On fiddle, this takes a bit of gymnastics to play cleanly--lots of string crossings and busy lefthand fingers...a typical G major tune, eh?
# Posted on March 23rd 2002 by Will CPT
I know this tune was recorded by The Cheiftans as a set followed by Up Against The Bachlavaughns/Glass of Beer/and another one after that which i can't remember the name of. It could well be a Redican tune, but I thought this one had a different name.
# Posted on March 23rd 2002 by Mad Baloney
Galway reel
Aye - this is the first tune on the "Northern Lights" recording.
My apologies - I may have set it into the wrong set of reels by the Chieftains.
# Posted on March 24th 2002 by Kenny
First recorded by..
I think Brendan McGlinchey, on his Music of a champion album in 1974.He called it the Galway reel but I have heard it called` the Ironing Board`and Fahey`s reel.
# Posted on March 11th 2004 by cos
In Josephine Keegan's recent book, A Drop In The Ocean, this tune (the second in the collection) goes by the name The Ironing Board.
# Posted on July 24th 2005 by Aidan Crossey
Ooops ...
Meant to post her setting.
Here it is:
X:1
T:The Ironing Board
M:4/4
R:Reel
K:G
|:B|AGEG DG,B,D|BAGA BedB|AGED B,DA,D|B,A, (3A,A,A, B,EED|
(3EFE DE GEDB,|(3DED B,E DG,B,D|E2GE DEGA|(3Bcd AB G3:||
|:B|dG (3GAG (3EFG DG|B,DGB dGBd|ec (3cdc AcFA|DFAd fed^c|
dG (3GAG (3EFG DG|B,DGB dGBd|ec (3cdc ecfe|dBAB G3:||
# Posted on July 24th 2005 by Aidan Crossey
Shaskeen titles
Shaskeen called the tune The Galway Reel when some accordion player played it solo on one of their albums but on another album "Atlantic Breeze" (I think), it was called Paddy Fahey's when Kevin Rohan did a fiddle solo and played the tune.
# Posted on April 21st 2007 by 52Paddy
Larry Redican
I think this is a Larry Redican tune. It is played by Finbarr Dwyer before another of Larry's compositions "The Culfadda" in a set called "Larry Redican's Reels" on his album The Star of Ireland.
A nice set of Larry's tunes is:
The Galway Reel / Forget Me Not (in D) / The Culfadda
# Posted on June 8th 2007 by 52Paddy
The Galway Reel (aka. Larry Redican's)
Watch and listen to John Brady and his daughter Attracta play it: http://comhaltas.ie/music/detail/comhaltaslive_198_segment_1_the_brady_family/
# Posted on June 9th 2007 by slainte
Flute friendly setting?
Thanks, slainte for the comhaltas link. I love this tune. John Brady's flute playing blends so nicely with the fiddle, I'm having difficulty understanding what he is doing when the tune goes out of range. Can someone post a flute friendly setting?
# Posted on September 14th 2008 by RickR
Re: Flute friendly setting?
Since no one responded, I gave it a shot myself. Take it for what it's worth - a newbies attempt to figure it out. By itself it's a bit monotonous, but it blends well with fiddle - and perhaps is in the ballpack of what John Brady was doing on the above comhaltas link.
X: 1
T: Galway, The
C: Larry Redican
N: Adapted for flute
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Gmaj
B|AGEG DGBD|BAGA BedB|AGED BDAD|
|G~E2B GEED|E2 DE GEDE|D2 GE DGGD|
|~E3G DEGA|1 BdAB G3:|2 BdAB G3 B||
|:d~G3 EGDG|EGGD GBdf|e~c3 AcGE|
|DFAd {a}fedc|BG(3GGG EGDG|EGGD GBdf|
|e~c3 ef{b}ge|1 dBAB G3 B:|2 dBAB G3||
# Posted on October 14th 2008 by RickR