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Poll: Tune of the Month for June 2019
Clive Williams:
Hi all - this month's 4 tunes
The Kirkgate Hornpipe - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJB4CbslCSg ; last month's runnerup, another session standard, and one I've always wondered what it was called! Now I know...
Loch Lomond - I assume we mean this? https://youtu.be/P7QGaoDwAbk?t=21 : here played by Hector (from Australia) with his mate.
Rope Waltz - I hope you'll forgive me this indulgence; I used to play this a long time ago, and would rather like to get acquainted with it again. It's from Orkney, and here played by Lester: https://lesters-tune-a-day.blogspot.com/2013/01/tune-141-rope-waltz.html
100 Pipers - another old one I used to play which turns up in Lester's veritable encyclopedia of tunes. A classic Scottish jig - https://lesters-tune-a-day.blogspot.com/2015/05/tune-414-100-pipers.html
Happy voting all!
george garside:
Loch Lomond can be played not only as song accompaniment, or a march but also as a very nice waltz tune as can 100 pipers
george
Peadar:
Loch Lomond is a terrific tune (not that I am remotely biased) and capable of being interpreted in many ways - including as a rock song. Arguably Runrig's nearest approach to death metal
Below, Iain Macíllfhinnein's "Gabhaidh Sinn am Bata" (....back to Austrailia) is closer to the way I would play (and/or sing) it myself.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/alba/oran/orain/gabhaidh_sinn_am_bata/
george garside:
there is a youtube of jimmy shand playing loch Lomond as a waltz . It is played on youtube from an original 1942 gramophone record! Jimmy Shand and his band, Scottish Waltz 3-26 ahould bring up the loch Lomond part of the record which contains other waltz tunes as well
george
Peadar:
Just listened through the options.
Deo was sufficiently impressed by Lester's "100 Pipers" to start licking her paws loudly in time with the music. There again she isn't a big fan of the pipes.
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