Muircheartaigh’s two hundred and nine comments

I use a similar method to @callison to keep sets together - but it's a much more sparse (lazy) approach. more…

Having looked around the tune DB a little more, I find that this tune is already here with the name 'Swallow's Tail.' more…

This is the version in Allan's Irish Fiddler. more…

Whoops, I should read more carefully. Mea maxima culpa. more…

I don't understand this talk of flats and blues pentatonic: F, Ab, Bb, C, Eb etc. more…

There's more info and four other versions of this tune at: more…

Instead of Ef#gf#, try Egf#g. more…

How can you run an invitation only session in a pub? (I'm presuming you're staying in the bar and not going for a back room) If your bouzouki player is sufficiently thick skinned - and it sounds as though he might be - he can buy his pint, sit at a nearb... more…

You can download a PDF of Italian folk music (including at least 10 tarantellas) from: more…

I like your tune, @dfost. But, to me, it sounds more like something from Playford rather than Irish. Then again, you may not have been trying to be specifically Irish. Either way, it's a nice tune. more…