Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on November 8th 2008 by slainte.
This tune has been added to 7 tunebooks.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Queen's
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: hornpipe
K: Gmaj
|:(3def|g>dB>d e>cA>F|G2G>A B>GF>G|D>FA>B c>AA>G|A>dd>^c d>ef>a|
g>dB>d e>cA>F|G2G>A B>GF>G|D>FA>B c>AF>A|G2G>F G2:|
|:(3Bcd|e2e>f g>e^c>e|d>^cd>e ~f2d2|g>fe>d ^c>AB>G|A>dd>^c d>ef>a|
g>dB>d e>cA>F|G2G>A B>GF>G|D>FA>B c>AF>A|G2G>F G2:|
Queen's Hornpipe
An ear-catching hornpipe from London flute player James Carty's flute album. Sean Maguire's father, Johnny Maguire is cited as the source of the tune. Johnny Maguire was a whistle player from Co. Cavan, who passed on some unusual local tunes to Cathal McConnell. I believe that Jack Roe's Reel is the most popular of the tunes associated with Johnny.
James Carty actually doesn't repeat either part of the tune though it's listed as a hornpipe on the recording. I think it works better as a normal hornpipe rather than a fling, hence this transcription.
I researched on the Net with no luck. Even Fiddlers Companion has no info on the tune. Is it still played in Cavan, or elsewhere? Hope someone would enlighten me.
# Posted on November 8th 2008 by slainte
Johnnie Queen
Johnnie Queen was a famed clog dancer and there is at least one tune namef for him in Ryan's Mammoth Collection/1000 Fiddle Tunes. Sean McGuire got a lot of tunes from that book and often mixed up the names. Don't have a copy at hand, but that's a place to look, I think.
# Posted on November 11th 2008 by blarneystar
Not Johnnie Queen's Clog anyway
Found "JQ's Clog" in The Fiddler's Companion. Not the same.
# Posted on November 11th 2008 by blarneystar
As I wrote, the source of this tune is Johnny Maguire, not Sean Maguire. James Carty writes it's on one of the old tape recordings he got from Reg Hall.
# Posted on November 11th 2008 by slainte