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Paddy Kelly's

reel

Key signature: Ddorian

Submitted on April 22nd 2007 by Tanya482.

This tune has been added to 22 tunebooks.

Also known as The New Custom House, The New Customs House.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

A Flick Of The Wrist by Brendan Larrissey
A Letter Home by Athena Tergis
Accordion Music From The Soul by Finbarr Dwyer
An Tris Is A Rian by Claire Keville, John Weir And Eithne Ni Dhonaile
Atlantic Wave by Paddy Reynolds, Charlie Mulvihill, James Keane, Felix Dolan
Best Of Finbarr Dwyer by Finbarr Dwyer
Big Boned Beauty by Donna Hebert
Boxed by Anders Trabjerg
Bridging The Gap by Kevin And Sean Moloney
Champions Of Ireland Concertina by Denise Shiel
Cooley by Joe Cooley
Drops Of Spring Water by Comhaltas Concert Tour 2004
Feadoga Stain 2 by Mary Bergin
Festival Of Traditional Irish Music by Various Artists
Flagstone Memories by Andrew Mac Namara, Orla Harrington And Jim Higgins
Flame On The Banks by Maeve Donnelly
For The Sake Of Old Decency by Various Artists
Foxglove by Moving Cloud
Galway's Own by Joe Burke
Hangin At The Crossroads by Eoin O'Neill
Hangin' At The Crossroads by Ceili Bandits
Harmonic Motion by Slide
I Can Hear You Smiling by Josephine Marsh Band
I GCnoc Na Grai by Noel Hill And Tony MacMahon
In The Tradition by Boys Of The Lough
Instrumental by Franz Sanger And Susan Frances
Ireland's Best Session Tunes CD 1 by Waltons Recording
Ireland's Own Traditional Accordionist by Finbarr Dwyer
Irish Button Accordion by Billy Moran
Irish Traditional Accordion Session With Four Champions by Joe Burke, Kevin Loughlin, Finbarr Dwyer And John Whelan
Irish Traditional Music by Paddy Carty
Jigs And Reels by Jesse Smith
Kelly/O'Brien/Sproule by Kelly, O'Brien and Sproule
Kiss Me Kate by Liz Carroll And Tommy Maguire
Last Night's Fun by Knock-na-shee
Loozin Air by Garry Shannon
Memories Of Clare by Bobby Gardiner
Music And Songs By The Sea by Michael Falsey
Overneath by Slide
Rogha Órdha by Various Artists
Seán Ryan CD1 by Sean Ryan
Simple System by Dan Isaacson
Steam by John Williams
Strayaway by Caoimhín Vallely
Strayaway by Caoimhin Vallely
Sweeter As The Years Roll By by James Keane
The Blackberry Blossom by Mary MacNamara
The Boys From The Blue Hill by Vinnie Kilduff
The Bunch Of Keys by Jason O'Rourke
The Dawn by Shaskeen
The Friendly Visit by Frank Brunel And Vincent Rosinach
The Hour Before Dawn by Solas
The Lake Of Learning by Tim O'Shea And Friends
The Mad Skeleton by Fianna
The Maid At The Well by Tony O'Rourke
The Mason's Apron by The Madden Brothers
The Pure Box by Colin Nea
Threads Of Time by Cherish The Ladies
Through The Round Window by Eamonn Coyne
Tippin' Away by Damien Connolly And Pete Mancuso
Traditional Irish Music From Co. Longford by Peter Carberry
Traditional Irish Music From London by John Blake, Lamond Gillespie And Mick Leahy
Traditional Irish Music In America: The East Coast by Various Artists
Traditional Irish Sessions by Various Artists
Traditional Music Of Ireland by Paddy O'Brien
Traditional Music Of Ireland by James Kelly, Paddy O'Brien, Daithi Sproule
Unheard by Eddie Clarke
Warming Up by Martin Mulhaire, Séamus Connolly And Jack Coen
Welcome Here Again by Martin Hayes And Dennis Cahill
When First I Went To Caledonia by Tony Cuffe

Details ABC Sheetmusic Comments

Paddy Kelly's

Learnt this tune off a CD of Irish Fiddle music and would love to know if anyone else knows it by another name. I love the change from F sharp to F natural; it makes this tune very unique! And it's fun to play!
PS. If you are reading the ABC format, the F sharp E D pattern in the 1st bar is a triplet (and everytime these 3 notes appear together they are triplets), as is the B C D pattern in the 2nd last bar.

# Posted on April 22nd 2007 by Tanya482

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This is familiar, if not necessarily as given, and what my memory came up with is minus your joy of moving from sharp to flat, though one could add that... I thought this reel was here already but despite trying a search in a couple of keys there are so many possible variations in any bar that I was unable to confirm pre-existence here one way or the other. Maybe someone else will have more luck.

For example, here is one other way with the melody, though I'm not completely happy with what my memory dug up for bits of the B-part ~

X: 1
T: ?
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: E Dorian
|: e/d/c |
BEGE GABc | d2 AF DFAd | BE E/E/E GABc | d/e/d fd efdc |
BE G/F/E G2 A/B/c | d2 AF DFAd | BE E/E/E G2 A/B/c | dBAF E2 :|
|: GA |
BeGe Bege | f2 dB fgaf | Be e/e/e Begb | ag f/e/d geGA |
Be e/e/e BeGe | fd d/d/d fg a/g/f | b2 a/g/f ebbe | fbba f2 :|

# Posted on April 22nd 2007 by ceolachan

The New Custom House ??

http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/175

# Posted on April 22nd 2007 by Kenny

"The New Custom House" ~ Yes!

That's what I was sensing anyway, or trying to find, D Mixolydian, not D Dorian. If I'd searched a few more bars worth it would have probably finally turned up. I've just gone over my transcript as E Mixolydian and that is definitely more along the lines of what I was sensing, rather than E Dorian. Thanks Kenny...

# Posted on April 22nd 2007 by ceolachan

This is obviously closely related but has enough different twists that I suppose it will hold up here on its own over time... The link is here for others to chase it up. I'll add this one in the 'Comments' for "The New Custom House"...

# Posted on April 22nd 2007 by ceolachan

Bars 3 and 7

I'm assuming the first f is meant to be sharp, not the subsequent d.

# Posted on April 22nd 2007 by muspc

| ADF^D =FGAB |

Yes, I think that's a typo...expecting they meant AD^FD...

I've dropped the contributor a note... They can always correct their ABCs...

# Posted on April 23rd 2007 by ceolachan

Thanks for the tip!

Sorry about those errors...it's actually the 1st time I've used ABC notation and I have a lot to learn!

# Posted on April 25th 2007 by Tanya482

great tune.
thanks for posting this.

im enjoying playing it on the banjo.

Cheers

# Posted on April 26th 2007 by DubChieftain