Key signature: Eminor
Submitted on June 23rd 2002 by Sturob.
This tune has been added to 34 tunebooks.
X: 1
T: Flame In The Fiddle, The
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Emin
|:EBB BAG|FDD AGF|EBB BAG|FGA B3|
Bee dBB|BAG FDD|DFA BAG|FEE E3:|
|:Bee d2A|B2G FGA|Bee dBA|FGA B2A|
Bee d2A|B2G FGA|BAG FGA|BEE E2A:|
|:BEE EFG|FDD DFA|BEE EFG|FGA B2A|
BEE EFG|FDD DFA|BAG FGA|BEE E2A:|
|:Bee dBA|BEE BEE|Bee dBA|FGA FGA|
Bee dBA|BEE BEE|BAG FGA|BEE E3:||
Who wrote it?
This is my first addition to the archive, and the tune is one of my all-time favorite jigs. I learned it as a kid on the highland pipes, played (interestingly) with accidentals in the key of A minor, which allows you to play birls on all the . . . well, the repeated low E's in my transcription. I learned this off a classic pipe band recording, Polkemmet Grorud's "Celtic Roots," the tape of which I lost maybe 10 years ago. Who knows how good my memory is: this is the way I've adapted it for Irish flute, and it may be exactly the way they play it or my arrangement. Who knows. It's a great tune that few people know. Eh, secret's out.
Several years back I talked with someone who had a service for finding the standard settings of pipe tunes, and I asked him about this jig. He gave it the title "The flame in the fiddle," but I don't remember who wrote it. If anyone knows, I'd love to find out whose work it is. Polkemmet played it in a set of minor jigs, the rest of which I can probably transcribe in Irish-friendly E minor if folks are interested.
Don't make fun of my novice ABC. ;)
Stuart
# Posted on June 23rd 2002 by Sturob
Composer
Composed by Pipe Major Robert Mathieson, I think.
# Posted on July 12th 2005 by LowProfile