Shrog’s two hundred and forty-two comments

On Gerry Harrington’s new album “At Home”, this tune is listed as Julia Clifford’s. more…

Interesting thing: If you take the tune “The Rolling Wave” and you compact it into a much shorter tune by leaving out certain notes, you get a tune called “The Rolling MP3”. more…

On track 4 they have a very interesting version of “The Maid Behind the Bar” (or is it actually “The Green Maintain”?). If I have time I’ll try to transcribe it and post it here. more…

Er… I don’t agree about the lengthy discussion. Half of it is about a totally unrelated tune and the other half is about the differences between a hornpipe and a reel. I don’t see how it applies here. more…

appppears more…

I came accross this tune at our session. I transcribed it from this recording: more…

Thank you Spindizzy, that’s perfect. I wasn’t expecting anybody to identify the waltz, but once again it seems I came to the right place. more…

Wow Dow, I am amazed. And a little embarassed that I was not able to find that, especially since it is so close to my transcription and indeed called The Devil’s Dream. more…

I think you are right about Shandon Bells, that seems to be the closest match so far. But I don’t think the reel is anything like Ships are Sailing. Here are some recordings, it may be better than the ABC thingies. more…

I’m trying to track down the origin of some of the tunes we play at our session, and I’ve done pretty well so far, but I am completely stomped by three tunes. I can find absolutely nothing on these three tunes. Can anybody help? more…