Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on September 19th 2006 by Pere.
This tune has been added to 14 tunebooks.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Mallorca
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Gmaj
d/2c/2|"G"BAB GBd|"C"ece gfe|"G"ded "Em"BGB|"Am"dcB "D7"A2d/2c/2|
"G"BAB GBd|"C"ece gfe|"G"d/2g3/2B "D7"dcA|"G"G3 -G2:|
c|"G"deg "C"gfe|"G"dcB "D7"B2A|"G"Bde dBd|"Em"dcB "D7"A2d/2c/2|
"G"BAB GBd|"C"ece gfe|"G"d/2g3/2B "D7"dcA|"G"G3 -G2:|
Mallorca
One day I was bored so I decided to search things on this site.
One of those things was "Mallorca", which is the island where I live. I found that the piper Billy Pigg recorded a tune called Mallorca in his album The Border Minstrel but it wasn't here.
I was curious so I decided to request the tune. Lurcherjohn and Laitch found this jig and sent it to me. (Thank you)
They found it here: http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/ndx/MA.html
I don't know if this is the same tune that Billy Pigg recorded,
I don't know who composed it. All I know is what the ABC says on that website:
% Nottingham Music Database
S:Duke of Windsor, via EF
# Posted on September 19th 2006 by Pere
Mallorca
I would say that's rather apipe march than a real jig
# Posted on September 20th 2006 by swisspiper
It is normally played on the slow side as a waltz.
# Posted on September 20th 2006 by geoffwright
Mallorca
Slow air for highland pipes. Written by King Edward VIII !
# Posted on September 20th 2006 by crunluath
Mallorca
I think he wrote this after he abdicated, so technically it was written by the late Duke of Windsor. iI used to be played a bit by Northunbrian pipers twenty years ago but i haven't heard it recently. It was always played as a waltz rather than a jig and was a bit twee.
Noel
# Posted on September 25th 2006 by noelbats