The Watchmaker

reel

Key signature: Aminor

Submitted on May 28th 2002 by Musicalbison.

This tune has been added to 34 tunebooks.

Also known as Niel Gow's Wife, Watchmaker, Watchmaker's, The Watchmaker's Fling, The Watchmaker's Highland Fling, The Watchmaker's Highland, The Watchmaker's, Watchmakers, Watchmakers', The Watchmakers', The Watchmakers.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

• Celtic Contraband by Michel Bonamy
• Fiddledance by Frank Ferrel And Friends
• In The Wind by Shegui
• Mi.da:za by North Cregg
• North-by-NorthWest by Eliot Grasso And Dave Cory
• Suantrai by John Canny, Kevin Carey And Terence O'Reilly
• Tempered by Last Night's Fun
• The Silver Spire by Karen Tweed
• Tippin' Away by Damien Connolly And Pete Mancuso
• Variations by Beolach
• Wooden Flute Obsession: Volume 2, Disc 1 by Various Artists

X: 1
T: Watchmaker, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Amin
cAAc BGGB|cA A2 (3Bcd ed|cAAc BGGB|cABG EAAB:|
c3 e gece|G2 BG dGBG|c3 e gedg|eaag eaaf|
g2 eg f2 df|ec c2 dB B2|ABcd e=fed|cABG DAAB|

I got this tune out of Karen Tweed's book...I usually like to play The Old Bush after it.

# Posted on May 28th 2002 by Musicalbison

The watchmaker

this is the second tune of three highlands played on the Patrick Street, Irish Times album

# Posted on November 4th 2002 by tony lavery

The version I play is a bit different, most notably that the first f is sharp, followed by a few choice f nats. So I think of this as being in A dorian, with the f nats as accidentals. I think this is closer to the Altan version (Horse with a Heart) as well. As follows:

X: 1
T: Watchmaker, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: A dorian
|cAAc BGGB|cAAB cded|cAAc BGGB|c/B/A BG EAAB:||
|c2 ec gcec|G2 BG dGBG|c2 ec gcec|eaag eaab|
|geeg fdd=f|ecce dBGB|ABcd e=fed|c/B/A BG EAAB||

# Posted on January 21st 2005 by Miss Lonelyhearts

This tune is in the Gunn Book (Fermanagh 1865) as 'Neils Gowan's Second Wife' (sic). It was also called by that name by Derrygonnelly flute-player Eddie Duffy

# Posted on November 12th 2009 by Sharon the Flute