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[savantuk]

Here's a lovely old waltz.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IjT_Y2vm3A

The northern lights of old Aberdeen.

When I was a lad, a tiny wee lad, my mother said to me,
Come see the Northern Lights my boy, they're bright as they can be.
She called them the heavenly dancers, merry dancers in the sky,
I'll never forget that wonderful sight, they made the heavens bright.

The Northern Lights of Aberdeen are what I long to see
the northern lights of Aberdeen are home sweet home to me,
I've been a wand'rer all of my life and many a sight I've seen.
God speed the day when I'm on my way to my home in Aberdeen.

I've wandered in many far-off lands, and travelled many a mile,
I've missed the folk I've cherished most, the joy of a friendly smile.
It warms up the heart of the wand'rer the clasp of a welcoming hand.
To greet me when I return, home to my native land.

[forrest]

Here's a Scottish tune I have always loved, not only the melody, but the words, written by Robt. Burns. I understand that Burns was a fiddler and a bit of a musicologist as well as a poet. The tune is "Ae Fond Kiss". I have done this as in impromptu multitrack recording, (a bit rough around the edges) using a Klingenthaler concertina, guitar, a century old German Cittern and my faithful Pistelli A/D.

                                        http://www.onmvoice.com/play.php?a=42943

[Bill Young]

Here's a Scottish tune I have always loved, not only the melody, but the words, written by Robt. Burns. I understand that Burns was a fiddler and a bit of a musicologist as well as a poet. The tune is "Ae Fond Kiss". I have done this as in impromptu multitrack recording, (a bit rough around the edges) using a Klingenthaler concertina, guitar, a century old German Cittern and my faithful Pistelli A/D.

                                        http://www.onmvoice.com/play.php?a=42943

Very nicely done.

I understand that Burns was a fiddler and a bit of a musicologist as well as a poet.                                         

A bit of a fiddler, but a significant musicologist. He was the major collector/preserver/originator of traditional songs of his age. An important collection that he co-edited, the Scots Musical Museum, has recently been reissued in facsimile form; and all 368 songs attributed to Burns have been issued on a 12 CD set, The Complete Songs of Robert Burns.

[forrest]

Thank you for those links, Bill. This helps give me a new insight into Mr. Burns. Just to add, I have also put up a version on youtube, again with pretty pictures. The mountain scenes are in the Cascade mountains and the Okanogan Highlands near where I live, the lake scenes were taken in northern British Columbia, Canada.

                        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAVSjFnayDg

[jackson10]

I liked this tune ever since I first heard it in the 1939 movie "Gunga Din" with Cary Grant, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Victor McLaglen and Sam Jaffe. For years I didn't know the name of it, then heard a piper friend who happened to be  playing it on the accordion, and he told me the name of it "Will Ye No Come Back Again." http://vimeo.com/20787103

[mayord21]

I liked this tune ever since I first heard it in the 1939 movie "Gunga Din" with Cary Grant, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Victor McLaglen and Sam Jaffe. For years I didn't know the name of it, then heard a piper friend who happened to be  playing it on the accordion, and he told me the name of it "Will Ye No Come Back Again." http://vimeo.com/20787103

Fantastic Playing. A real inspiration ! Basses well played with the melody.
; Don

[jackson10]

I liked this tune ever since I first heard it in the 1939 movie "Gunga Din" with Cary Grant, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Victor McLaglen and Sam Jaffe. For years I didn't know the name of it, then heard a piper friend who happened to be  playing it on the accordion, and he told me the name of it "Will Ye No Come Back Again." http://vimeo.com/20787103

Fantastic Playing. A real inspiration ! Basses well played with the melody.
; Don

Thank you. I'm trying to learn using the basses now.

[strad]

I've just remembered that there's a couple of my tunes on YouTube. One was recorded towards the end of Graeme Mackay's first workshop and the other is Graeme playing the tune for the second workshop though I don't know what happened to the 2nd time through the second part. . Each tune contains bits I found awkward at the time which is the way my writing has gone recently. In the first clip there are several members of this parish though our minister had escaped by then!

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=895IK0cncfg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFzksErmGkY

Nigel

[Bill Young]

Hi Nigel,

Just to let you know that my daughter and I regularly play your second tune (Return to Aviemore) in a set of 4/4s (suitable for a Gay Gordons) at accordion and fiddle clubs. It goes down really well.

Bill

[strad]

Thanks for that, Bill

Nigel

[Gary P Chapin]

I've been interested in playing harp tunes on the accordion.  Robin Williamson's "Legacy of the Scottish Harper" is a great disc. This is called "Lady Cassili's Lilt."  

http://accordeonaire.blogspot.com/2011/03/lady-cassils-lilt.html

[Mcgrooger]

I've been interested in playing harp tunes on the accordion.  Robin Williamson's "Legacy of the Scottish Harper" is a great disc. This is called "Lady Cassili's Lilt."  

http://accordeonaire.blogspot.com/2011/03/lady-cassils-lilt.html

I really enjoyed this Gary - a 'different' sort of tune for the Scottish theme than many and really nice. Thank you.

[NeilA]

Very enjoyable.

[Bill Young]

I've been interested in playing harp tunes on the accordion.  Robin Williamson's "Legacy of the Scottish Harper" is a great disc. This is called "Lady Cassili's Lilt."  

http://accordeonaire.blogspot.com/2011/03/lady-cassils-lilt.html

"Lady Cassilis' Lilt" is a very old tune (she died in 1642) and was used for the ballad Johnny Faa and the Earl of Cassillis' Lady, the origin of Gypsy Davy/Gypsy Laddie/Gypsy Rover. It's most commonly heard nowadays as the tune for the Jacobite song "Wae's Me for Prince Chairlie".

[Gary P Chapin]

That's great info, Bill, thank you. And thanks McG and Nell.

[Ziachmusi/Louise]

Inspired by Mr Dedic's Hammersmith Morris, here's "Blue bells of Scotland"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTVl2kOWaK0

enjoy!

Louise

[Alan Morley]

Inspired by Mr Dedic's Hammersmith Morris, here's "Blue bells of Scotland"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTVl2kOWaK0

enjoy!

Louise

Nice playing - but just a quick hint - try dropping to the 'D' Row on the 9th to 12 bar of the 'B' part....

Grand job 

[mayord21]

Inspired by Mr Dedic's Hammersmith Morris, here's "Blue bells of Scotland"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTVl2kOWaK0

enjoy!

Louise

Very nice harmony with banjo . Great work !
;Don

[Ziachmusi/Louise]

Nice playing - but just a quick hint - try dropping to the 'D' Row on the 9th to 12 bar of the 'B' part....

just tried and you're right, back to the drawing board

thanks for the kind comments

Louise

[Alan Morley]

Nice playing - but just a quick hint - try dropping to the 'D' Row on the 9th to 12 bar of the 'B' part....

just tried and you're right, back to the drawing board

thanks for the kind comments

Louise

The melody notes are the same - but the bass chords follow easier - thats all..I used to find a lot of Morris side box players didnt change rows either..