Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on January 2nd 2007 by nicholas.
This tune has been added to 17 tunebooks.
Also known as Apex, The Apex, Gaspé, The Gaspé, Reel De Gaspé, Reel De Gaspe.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Gaspe, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Gmaj
|:B2 AB AG FE|D2 D2 E2 D2|c2 Bc BA GF|E2 F2 E2 D2|
B2 AB AG FE|D2 D2 E2 D2|c2 Bc BA GF |E2 F2 G4:|
|:A3 B c2 A2|B3 c d2 B2|A3 B cB AG|E2 F2 E2 D2|
A3 B c2 A2|B3 c d2 B2|A3 B cB AG|E2 F2 G4 :|
The Gaspe Reel (There should be a French acute accent over "e" in Gaspe)
I assume this tune is French Canadian - as stated above, the name is spelt with a French accent. I heard it years ago on a record called "How To Make A Bakewell Tart " by melodeon player Tufty Swift, sadly no longer with us, who made that record a showcase for the one-row melodeon, which he played throughout. He played the "Gaspe" in at least two keys on it, and indeed it's a tune that could easily be played in D, then G, then A - if so desired - on usual session instruments.
# Posted on January 2nd 2007 by nicholas
Gaspe Reel - it's a proper reel, played at reel speed
Tufty Swift played it quite a lot faster than the midi. It's a proper reel, maybe the speed of "Soldier's Joy" or "The Flowers Of Edinburgh".
# Posted on January 2nd 2007 by nicholas
Carignan got this reel from Bernard Morin, french canadian fiddler. On the first archives CD, you can hear Carignan playing it in a medley with The temple house
http://www.thesession.org/recordings/display/2324
# Posted on January 2nd 2007 by Carabus
I've always heard it played in D,with a third part
K:Dmaj
L:1/8
M:4/4
|:f2 ef e2d2|dBBd (3BcB A2|
g2 (3fgf e2d2|cABc B2A2|
f2 ef e2d2|dBBd (3BcB A2|
g2 (3fgf e2d2|1cABc d2e2:|
2cABc d2f2||
:e2f2g2 fe|fefg a2f2|
e2 ef gfed|cABc (3BcB A2|
ecef g2 fg|fefg a2 gf|
ecef gfed|cABc d2f2:||
:e2 cA e2 cA|Bcdf e2 cA|
e2 cA e2 cA|e2 cA Bcdf|
e2 cA e2 cA|BA^GB A4:||
# Posted on January 3rd 2007 by dafydd
Tufty Swift,great melodeon player and stalwart of The Umps And Dumps band,sadly missed.
# Posted on January 4th 2007 by dafydd