X: 1
T: Hooversville
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Emaj
B3c GB~B2|GFEF Gc~c2|BEcE GB~B2|AGFA GEEc|
~B3c GB~B2|GFEF GBcd|edcB Gc~c2|1 BGFB GEEc:|2 BGFB GEE2||
|:fgfe cB~B2|GBcd ec~c2|fgfe cB~B2|cfag ~f3a|
g2fe cB~B2|GFEF GBcd|edcB Gc~c2|1 BGFB GEE2:|2 BGFB GEEc||
Hooversville
A Diarmaid Moynihan composition from Calico's "Songdogs".
# Posted on June 27th 2008 by Dow
A very pleasant and original tune. Thanks Dow.
# Posted on June 28th 2008 by PaddyCmusic
Isn't the composer a piper? Does he really play it in Emaj?
# Posted on June 28th 2008 by slainte
That's what I was wondering. Maybe its a set of E pipes or he does some very impressive work with a keyed set! I've tried googling the tune and band for an MP3 snippet or the like but have had no luck.
# Posted on June 29th 2008 by PaddyCmusic
According to the liner notes, the tune was indeed composed by Diarmaid Moynihan, but on the recording it's played by 2 fiddles (presumably Deirdre Moynihan and Tola Custy). There are a few possibilities as to why it is in E major. Perhaps he wrote it using an E whistle, or perhaps he deliberately set out to write a tune in E for the fiddles, or maybe it was originally composed in D for the pipes, and the band decided it would be better as a fiddle duet, and the fiddlers found they liked the sound of it in E and transposed it.
# Posted on June 29th 2008 by Dow
Try this Version on pipes
X: 1
T: Hooversville
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K:Dmaj %Transposed from EMAJ
A3B FA~A2|FEDE FB~B2|ADBD FA~A2|GFEG FDDB|
~A3B FA~A2|FEDE FABc|dcBA FB~B2|1 AFEA FDDB:|2 AFEA FDD2||
|:efed BA~A2|FABc dB~B2|efed BA~A2|Begf ~e3g|
f2ed BA~A2|FEDE FABc|dcBA FB~B2|1 AFEA FDD2:|2 AFEA FDDB||
# Posted on June 29th 2008 by Kurt Franke