The Friendly Visit

hornpipe

Key signature: Gmajor

Submitted on May 21st 2001 by Jeremy.

This tune has been added to 60 tunebooks.

Also known as A Friendly Visit, Callanan's Retreat, Friendly Visit.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

• A Dark Horse by Martin Murray
• Ard Rí by Aileach
• Bimis Ag Ol by Ronan Le Bars
• Classic Ceili Bands by Various Artists
• Fiddle Duets by Andy McGann And Paddy Reynolds
• Ireland's Best Session Tunes CD 2 by Waltons Recording
• Ireland's Harvest : A Tribute To The Golden Years Of Music In Irish America by Joe Derrane, Frankie Gavin And Brian McGrath
• Irish Accordion by Timmy Cronin
• Irish Accordion Masters by Joe Derrane And Jerry O'Brien
• Jigs And Reels by The Aughrim Slopes Ceili Band
• Leo Rowsome: Classics Of Irish Piping by Leo Rowsome
• Let Down The Blade by John Regan And Paddy Glackin
• Melodic Journeys by James Kelly
• Play It By Ear by Dinny McLaughlin
• Portraid by Sean Maguire
• Ranting And Reeling: Dance Music Of The North Of England by Various Artists
• Sean Reid's Favourite by Jimmy O'Brien-Moran
• Stormy Weather by Beginish
• The Ballydesmond Polka by Dan Herlihy And John Drew
• The Frost Is All Over by Paul McGrattan
• The Gallowglass Ceili Band by The Gallowglass Ceili Band
• Time On Our Hands by SiobhᮠPeoples And Murty Ryan

X: 1
T: Friendly Visit, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: hornpipe
K: Gmaj
|:BA|(3GFG DG BGBd|(3cBc AB cdef|g2 dg ecAG|FGAB cBAB|
(3GFG DG BGBd|(3cBc AB cdef|gdBG FAdc|B2 G2 G2:|
|:(3GBd|g2 dB GBdg|e2 cA FGAg|f2 ed cdeg|(3fgf (3efe dcBA|
(3GFG DG BGBd|(3cBc AB cdef|gdBG FAdc|B2 G2 G2:|

True to its title, this tune has a friendly, inviting sound to it.

I've shown it here with quite a few triplets. You can, of course, replace these triplets with long notes if you wish (e.g. just one long G instead of GFG). On the other hand, you could throw in even more triplets especially in that run-down in the second part.

By the way, this is definitely not a tune to race through. This is one to play at a nice, measured pace if you want to reveal its true beauty.

# Posted on June 1st 2001 by Jeremy

This is apparently a hornpipe version of a Donegal Highland of the same name.

# Posted on January 27th 2006 by Conán McDonnell

"The Friendly Visit" / "Callanan's Retreat" ~ a rescued duplication

Key signature: A Major
Submitted on June 3rd 2007 by m_gavin.
~ /tunes/display/7307

X: 1
T: Callanan's Retreat
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: hornpipe
K: A Major
|: cB |
(3ABA EA cAce | dcBc defg | a2 ea fdBA | GABc dBGB |
(3ABA EA cAce| dcBc defg | aecA EGBd | c2 A2 A2 :|
|: (3efg |
|: a2 ec Acea | f2 dB F3 f | g2 fe ^defa | gef^d e=dcB |
(3ABA EA cAce | dcBc defg |aecA EGBd | c2 A2 A2 :|

"Let's not have any unpleasant dissent about this one's origins. It's clearly named after a place for Catholics to go for a few quiet days' contemplation and rest, most likely written in the Blasket islands in the late 1800's."

# Posted on June 3rd 2007 by m_gavin

# Posted on June 4th 2007 by ceolachan

Oops! doubled the repeat for the B-part, which should be so ~

|: (3efg |
|a2 ec Acea | f2 dB F3 f | g2 fe ^defa | gef^d e=dcB |
(3ABA EA cAce | dcBc defg |aecA EGBd | c2 A2 A2 :|

I have another take I'll add later...

# Posted on June 4th 2007 by ceolachan

Friendly Visit

You can listen to a short clip of Paul McGrattan and Matt Molloy playing this hornpipe together: http://www.claddaghrecords.com/www/music/real_audio/cc58/cc58trk10.ram
Their flute duet playing is on P. McGrattan's "Frost is All Over": http://www.claddaghrecords.com/www/product.asp?pID=39&cID=15 I believe John Egan was cited as the source.

# Posted on July 11th 2008 by slainte