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Kansas City

hornpipe

Key signature: Dmajor

Submitted on July 28th 2008 by JosephofCK.

This tune has been added to 16 tunebooks.

Also known as The Kansas City.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

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X: 1
T: Kansas City
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: hornpipe
K: Dmaj
BA|:F2FF FEFA|FED2 D2FA|ABBB AFFA|FED2 E2AD|
F2FF FEFA|FED2 D2FA|defa bfaf|1gfd2 d2BA:|2gfd2 d2dA||
|:def2 a2fa|abb2 affa|eff2 affa|fed2 e2ag|
efaf gefd|edB2 BAAF|ABde faba|1fed2 d2dA:|2fed2 d2BA||

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Kansas City sheetmusic
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Taken from a video of Fred Morrison playing uilleann pipes on the transatlantic sessions. This tune instantly became one of my favorites. Had a little bit wrong, but was corrected by ceolachan.

# Posted on July 28th 2008 by JosephofCK

Discussion: Help correcting my probably many errors?

# Posted on July 28th 2008 by JosephofCK
~ /tunes/display/8755

This is ~ The Kansas City Hornpipe as taken from a youtube video of Fred Morrison playing uilleann pipes in the transatlantic sessions.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=D7zmd4rYh1o

# Posted on July 29th 2008 by ceolachan

Thanks for the link and listen Joe, lovely, both the pipes, sweet and having a kick with that tune, and the lovely banjo too, very nice, played straight, in one old-time American way with such tunes. The transcript given is minus all those lovely slurs and rolls given by the piper. While I followed that, I kept being drawn to the simplicity of the banjo.

Nice transcription work from the start Joe, you obviously have decent ears and a fair understanding...

# Posted on July 29th 2008 by ceolachan

# Posted on July 28th 2008 by jardineromi

I found another version of this tune abc'd here:

http://www.uilleannforum.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=917&sid=757b4d9904ae3eef73efc1ec58948941

and here's the abc:

X: 221
T: Kansas City Hornpipe, The
C: Fred Morrison?
Z: Bill Reeder
M: C|
L: 1/8
R: reel / hornpipe
K: DMaj
BA |\
F2 ~F2 FEFA | FE D2 D2 FA | AB ~B2 AFFA | FE D2 E2 AE |
EF ~F2 FEFA | FE D2 D2 FA | defa bfae | gf d2 d2 z2 |
F2 ~F2 FEFA | FE D2 D2 BD | AB ~B2 AFFA | FE D2 E2 AG |
F2 ~F2 FEFA | FE D2 D2 FA | defa bfae | gf d2 d2 ||
A2 |\
de ~f2 a2 fa | ab ~b2 affa | =f^f ~f2 =f^ffa | fe d2 e2 ag |
f2 af gefd | ed B2 BAAF | ABde faba | fe d2 d2 A2 |
de ~f2 a2 fa | ab~b2 affa | =f^f ~f2 affa | fe d2 e2 ag |
f2 af gefd | edB2 BAAF | ABde faba | fe d2 d2 |]

# Posted on July 29th 2008 by ceolachan

~ | =f^f ~f2 =f^ffa | ~

I like how they tried to emulate the slides with their ABCs. It seems to have been transcribed from the same source.

# Posted on July 29th 2008 by ceolachan

I'd love to hear just the banjo on that tune...but I enjoy what the piper does as well...

# Posted on July 29th 2008 by ceolachan

I love this tune... I've watched that video about a million times and even looked for a transcription of it on here a few months ago. So when do we get a transcription of Jarlath's tune :-)

# Posted on July 30th 2008 by LowWhistler

I forgot to put a question mark at the end of that last comment. I hope the grammar police won't string me up...

# Posted on July 30th 2008 by LowWhistler

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