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[CAB]

And yet another road...an Anglicised (some might say bastardised...) version of an Irish Set Dance.
The Lodge Road

So that's what can be done on a Preciosa!  Great energy and precision.

[Eshed]

So that's what can be done on a Preciosa!  Great energy and precision.

Pretty sure this is a Liliput

[Thrupenny Bit]

Thanks Baz, really enjoyed that!
Another blast from the past 
Q

[Peadar]

The nearest that I can think of is perhaps, "Down where the drunkards roll", but I cannot bring it all to mind at the mo.

There is a Percy French song in ballad form: "The Lay of William, Inspector of Drains". Anyone know the tune?

[John MacKenzie (Cugiok)]

We seem to be straying from tunes, but as Peader asked for a sewer song, you can thank the late great Sydney Carter for this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHbGjA_RXaY


SJ

[Tone Dumb Greg]

...If only I could find a tune dedicated to sewers....

Nearest I could think of is the muckspreader song: Fling it here...

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=the+muckspreader+song

[Hugh Taylor]

Nearest I could think of is the muckspreader song: Fling it here...

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=the+muckspreader+song

Oh dear. This isn't a Traditional muckspreading song from Dorset, England but was composed by Stuart Lawrence from Dalton in Cumbria. The Yetties heard it and asked Stuart if they could sing it. They altered the chorus and changed the tune from the one that Stuart wrote to the well known Villikins and his Dinah tune. Stuart wasn't impressed.

[baz parkes]

So that's what can be done on a Preciosa!  Great energy and precision.

Pretty sure this is a Liliput

And you'd be correct...quite why I put Preciosa I have no idea...I don't think I've ever played one

Can we just pretend I pput a deliberate mistake in to see if anyone actually watched the video?

[Tone Dumb Greg]

Nearest I could think of is the muckspreader song: Fling it here...

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=the+muckspreader+song

...They altered the chorus and changed the tune from the one that Stuart wrote to the well known Villikins and his Dinah tune. Stuart wasn't impressed.

Thanks for the info. Seems like thetraditional  folk ripoff   process in action.

[folkbluesnbeyond]

https://youtu.be/FSMewc97TQU

Delving into the w.i.p box again. The New Ipswich Town Hall Polka. Commissioned by Neil Bateman for Ipswich Jazz Festival 2018 and the 150th anniversary of the opening of the 'New' Town Hall. Composed by Chris Ingham and George Double and first performed at the festival by a Jazz ensemble. Neil kindly sourced a 'top line' notation for me. Here shoehorned onto a Hohner DG pokerwork and played in 'Suffolk' polka style. (The video is also a piece of prefabricated civil engineering, segmented and built). There are eight sections, arranged as four 'AB's here, intro and outro, comes in at about six minutes.

I had intended to do more with this and still might, but this theme seemed to be a good excuse for a rough draft. I have attached my 'working' notes as a PDF. The original is more complex and out of range of the melodeon in places.

There is a recording of the debut performance at the Jazz Festival at
https://www.facebook.com/ipswichjazzfestival/videos/940928682746379/

All the best

Bill

[Peadar]

We seem to be straying from tunes, but as Peader asked for a sewer song, you can thank the late great Sydney Carter for this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHbGjA_RXaY


SJ

It's all yours Sir John - I look forward to your melodeonous take on it.

[Peadar]

The nearest that I can think of is perhaps, "Down where the drunkards roll", but I cannot bring it all to mind at the mo.

"Wor Geordie's lost 'is pinker" - a traditional Geordie song .....the cundy features significantly. Cundy - a type of drain/culvert
formed of a floor slab, two side walls and a cover slab. Very common form of railway culvert in southern Scotland and as sewer in older miner's rows..

[Peadar]

...If only I could find a tune dedicated to sewers....

Nearest I could think of is the muckspreader song: Fling it here...

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=the+muckspreader+song

Talk about thread drift!
Sewers belong to the realm of civil engineering.....muckspreaders are in the desmene of agricultural engineering. Different branch of engineering and a different potential theme of the month.   

[Tone Dumb Greg]

...If only I could find a tune dedicated to sewers....

Nearest I could think of is the muckspreader song: Fling it here...

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=the+muckspreader+song

Talk about thread drift!
Sewers belong to the realm of civil engineering.....muckspreaders are in the desmene of agricultural engineering. Different branch of engineering and a different potential theme of the month.   

You are, of course, absolutely right 

[Julian S]

The Ironbridge Hornpipe

I reckon that definitely counts as Civil Engineering !

https://youtu.be/rvGHxaA_-8Q

Julian

[Peadar]

The Ironbridge Hornpipe

I reckon that definitely counts as Civil Engineering !

https://youtu.be/rvGHxaA_-8Q

Julian

Certainly does. Inspirational bridge. Inspirational playing. Enjoyed listening and watching - though I'm not  going to be tackling Hornpipes anytime in the foreseeable future. 

[Fred]

I somehow lack inspiration for this month's theme.

[Julian S]

I somehow lack inspiration for this month's theme.

My next choice might be Andy Cuttings 'Long Drive'...after all a really long driveway would count as civil engineering...

J

[Tone Dumb Greg]

I somehow lack inspiration for this month's theme.

My next choice might be Andy Cuttings 'Long Drive'...after all a really long driveway would count as civil engineering...

J

Canals might count.

[Thrupenny Bit]

Canals - when do you recommend Greg, in early Autumn?