Key signature: Bminor
Submitted on June 15th 2004 by errik.
This tune has been added to 39 tunebooks.
Also known as An Dúidín, Dudeen, McGann's, Old Dudeen, The Tailor's Thimble.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Old Dudeen, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Bmin
|:fe|dBBA FEFA|dcde fgfe|dBBA ~F3 A|BdcA B2:|
Bc|:d2 Bc dcde|fbbf afef|dBBc dcde|fbaf e2 de|
fB~B2 dcde|fbbf a2 fa|bfbf abaf|bf~f2 eafe:|
Gerry O'Connor's version
On his Journeyman cd, fiddler Gerry O'Connor calls this McGann's after Andy McGann. Gerry says he got the tune from a private tape of McGann's playing.
Transcribed from Gerry O'Connor's playing, it goes like this:
X:1
T: McGann's
M:4/4
L:1/8
S:Journeyman, Gerry O'Connor
K:Bm
fe|dB{d}BA ~F3 A|dcde fgfe|dB{d}BA ~F3 A|BdcA B3 c|
|dB{d}BA ~F3 A|dcde fgfe|dB{d}BA ~F3 A|BdcA B3 g||
|fdBc ~d3 f|a2 a^g afe=g|fdBd A/B/A de|fbaf [e3e3] g|
|fdBc ~d3 e|fbbf a2 fa|b3 f a2 fa|bfaf egfe||
There's no small resemblance to the Otter's Holt, especially in the A part.
# Posted on March 21st 2005 by Will CPT
I have this off Danu: http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/3613. Didn't realise at the time I was submitting it that I was duplicating...
# Posted on March 21st 2005 by Dow
The Old Dudeen
My submission belongs here in the comments. Go here for an mp3 and some more info about early recordings http://www.cranfordpub.com/tunes/Irish/OldDudeen.htm. I think the Tailor's Thimble title might be a mistake, and there's another reel that goes by that name anyway.
X: 1
T: Tailor's Thimble, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
S: Danu: Think Before You Think
K: Bmin
fedc BAFA|~d3e fdef|dBcB BAFA|BdcA ~B3c|
dBBA ~F3A|~d3e faef|dBcB BAFA|BdcA ~B3c||
d2Bc dcde|f2bf afeg|fdBc ~d3e|fbaf edeg|
fdBc dcde|f2bf afef|bf~f2 af~f2|bfaf edeg||
# Posted on January 11th 2006 by Dow
It sounds so D major...
# Posted on April 30th 2006 by MBAC
It sounds so B minor...
# Posted on April 30th 2006 by slainte
Composed by John McGrath.
# Posted on February 12th 2008 by dinn2
Paddy Killoran recorded this during the fifties and I have always thought it could well have been the inspiration for the Otter's Holt, many local musicians including Junior Crehan met and played with Killoran on his 1958 and 1960 visits to Miltown Malbay.
# Posted on April 11th 2008 by kilfarboy
I confirm, it's a Bm tune.
Nice tune anyway, my students will suffer next year !
# Posted on June 30th 2008 by Emmanuel Delahaye