Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on December 3rd 2006 by nicholas.
This tune has been added to 11 tunebooks.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Loch Rannoch
M: 3/4
L: 1/8
R: waltz
K: Dmaj
|:D4 F2|A4 B2|d4 B2|AB-B4|D4 F2|A4 B2|AF-F4|E6 |
D4 F2|A4 B2|d4 B2|AB-B4|D4 F2|A4 F2|E6 |D6 :|
|:B4 c2|d4 c2|B4 A2|FA-A4|B4 A2|d4 F2|E4 D2|EF-F4|
A4 F2|d4 A2|B4 d2|BA-A4|D4 F2|A4 F2|E6 |D6 :|
Loch Rannoch
Got to be Scottish with a name like that. I got this tune from Kathryn Tickell's 80s album "Borderlands", where she played it along with the late Martyn Bennett. They played the tune in C, with Kathryn on Northumbrian pipes and Martyn, I think, on Scottish smallpipes, though I could be mistaken on this latter point. I've submitted it in D, but people might find it works better for them in G or A.
On the album it's played as a slow tune but it would probably work as a regular waltz tune.
# Posted on December 3rd 2006 by nicholas
Loch Rannoch
Even by Scottish standards Loch Rannoch is singularly huge and bleak. It contains colossal trout called ferox, sometimes caught by Victorian anglers, whose life was mysterious until a keen angler recently used an echo-sounder to locate them and work out their habits (I mean the ferox, not the Victorians). To the West, the West Highland railway line toils over its highest stretch, on or next to Rannoch Moor. Been there, did not get the T-shirt.
# Posted on December 3rd 2006 by nicholas
I caught the train from Rannoch station once. I cycled miles along a lonely road across Rannoch Moor, until I reached the station, where the road comes to an abrupt stop. A station, a couple of small hotels and a few footpaths disappearing off into the mountains. The next station on to the North isn't even accessible by road.
# Posted on December 4th 2006 by granama