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What tune shall we play in June?

The Kirkgate Hornpipe
- 9 (19.1%)
Loch Lomond
- 9 (19.1%)
Rope Waltz
- 15 (31.9%)
100 Pipers
- 14 (29.8%)

Total Members Voted: 36

Voting closed: May 31, 2019, 07:28:56 PM


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Clive Williams

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Poll: Tune of the Month for June 2019
« on: May 25, 2019, 07:28:56 PM »

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!



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Re: Poll: Tune of the Month for June 2019
« Reply #1 on: May 25, 2019, 07:58:10 PM »

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

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Re: Poll: Tune of the Month for June 2019
« Reply #2 on: May 25, 2019, 09:18:19 PM »

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/
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Re: Poll: Tune of the Month for June 2019
« Reply #3 on: May 26, 2019, 01:30:15 PM »

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

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Re: Poll: Tune of the Month for June 2019
« Reply #4 on: May 26, 2019, 02:11:01 PM »

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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Re: Poll: Tune of the Month for June 2019
« Reply #5 on: May 27, 2019, 09:46:09 AM »

100 pipers  along with cock of the north and  bonny Dundee makes a great tune set for north west morris and also a great set for the gay gordons for a ceilidh band.  Somehow both the public and the dancers seem to identify with them 

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